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Robert Erskine Hendrick's [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th Marine Defense Battalion] father [Annotator's Note:...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

Richard O'Hara's most memorable experience of World War 2 was sailing into Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor...

Forrest Villarrubia was in combat with General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur] on Leyte...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

The Grumman Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft] was a beautiful aircraft, according to...

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

Calvin Moore expected things to be different at home after the war. He went to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine...

The drill instructor Steve McMurray had for basic training was a small, compact, mean man from Mississippi who was "as...

Anthony Costa enjoyed it [Annotator's Note: his prewar service in the United States Marine Corps] because he was able...

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