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John Mikus, Jr. left from Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands] on Higgins boats [Annotator'...

Richard O'Hara took a train with eight others to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They did not know...

Don Daniels' closest call was an accident. His unit [Annotator's Note: Weapons Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th...

Adolph Wilson arrived in San Diego for Marine training after three days of travel on a train from New Orleans. The men...

Arthur Jackson was in the hospital in Noumea, New Caledonia for three or four weeks before being shipped back to the...

Edgar Cole went to communications school and finished at the head of his class. He was automatically assigned to...

Ray Davidson [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling; unable to identify], and maybe Bender [Annotator's Note: phonetic...

James Shelton Scales was in the Marine Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...

Thomas Edward Pugh was born in June 1924 in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in Denton [Annotator's Note: Denton, Texas]. His...

When he set sail, Gerald West had never heard of Guadalcanal. He didn't learn about it until he was about to attack it...

George Colburn got a ten-day leave to go home after bootcamp. Two of his buddies were home at the same time. He then...

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