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Following the Japanese surrender, Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] made an American...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

George Colburn used the G.I. Bill to attend the Franklin Institute of Boston [Annotator's Note: Benjamin Franklin...

Colonel John Acree Reeder was born in January 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Boeing School of...

When James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division]...

Daniel J. Lawler deployed to the Pacific in November 1943. He felt sufficiently trained. Training was hell, but he used...

Vaughn Whitworth, like most segregated Marines, was in a Depot Company [Annotator's Note: 19th Depot Company, 7th Field...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

Quintana believes that it is important that people continue to study and research World War II however he does note...

Sergeant Carter [Annotator's Note: UNited States Marine Corps Sergeant James "Rudy" Carter] was a stickler for the...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

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