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The older guys in the division [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] went home after Peleliu [Annotator's Note:...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was told...

It is important to study and learn about World War 2 as well as World War 1 [Annotator's Note: global war originating...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

Richard Higgins was not on Bloody Nose Ridge but he was close it. Another man Higgins had great respect for was Red...

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

Frank Campisano was born in April 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. He had a happy childhood and family. During the...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. witnessed the end of the fighting on Wake Island. It was chaotic. He [Annotator’s Note: then US...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. saw that he [Annotator’s Note: then US Marine Corps Major; later Brigadier General, James...

Martin Banyas has restricted use of his shoulders as a result of his wartime service [Annotator's Note: as a Marine...

There were little pockets of resistance [Annotators Note: during the first days on Okinawa]. His company started...

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