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Rob Roy Ratliff was assigned to the communications section of Headquarters, 5th Marine Division. At the time, the 5th...

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

To Richard Greer the staff NCOs in the weapons company were the heroes. They had a lot of old staff NCOs that they...

After a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Bill Toledo [Annotator's Note:...

When he got out of the military, David Heath used the G.I. Bill. Before the war, he worked in a garage overhauling...

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

After the war, James Smith had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He got a job before he was even discharged from...

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

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

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

Everything Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. learned as an officer in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of his life. [...

Leo William Schmittgens was born in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] in February 1926. He had four...

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