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In late 1943, Charles A. Waller boarded a ship from San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] with 800 other...

Sidney Philips remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor while sitting at a drug store counter on the corner of Dauphin and...

Bailey checked in with his draft board and was put on a bus to Camp Croft. He told the army recruiter that he wanted to...

After the war, Roy Stewart stayed in touch with Jack Sims [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling]. Sims wanted to get a...

A great number of the troops that were mustered were from the South. Warren J. Haslauer believes the Southern people,...

On Guadalcanal, Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment faced some enemy air raids and naval...

After cutting himself badly on coral in the Marshall Islands, Ed Weber was put on a hospital ship [Annotator's Note: 31...

After the war ended, Thomas J. Smith, Junior and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart was assigned to Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 231 (VMSB-231) on Majuro Atoll, Marshall...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

James J. Hill flew with VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211)] as the war ended. He learned...

Rivers Richardson King was assigned to Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 233 (VMSB-233) and headed to Guadalcanal [...

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