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1 of the men working with Church was hard headed and clearly unhappy with their current predicament. When they were...

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

Frank Stewart stopped to see one of his brothers in Oklahoma on his way to Boston when he returned to the United States...

Charles Gubish managed to have some fun when he had time off. There was a food bank [Annotator's Note: during the...

After the Battle of the Tenaru River, Frank H. O’Leary and his squad were only given one and half meals a day because...

Ed Weber went into the service on 5 December 1942 and went to the San Diego Marine Corps base [Annotator's Note: Marine...

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

Charles Joseph Fox was born in New Roads, Louisiana. His father was a levee contractor for the Army Corps of Engineers...

Gravois didn't get any sleep during the 2 nights he was on Tarawa. The Japanese tried to infiltrate their lines, but...

James J. Hill had Pappy Boyington [Annotator's Note: later US Marine Corps Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington] as his...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine assigned to the Guam Insular Force Guard in Guam, Mariana Islands]...

After the battle ended, Ira Schilling and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment,...

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