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The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotators Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....

Jack Skaggs surrendered on Wilkes Island. Meanwhile, there were about 1,200 civilians on Wake Island. Commander...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...

Clayton Hall went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San Diego,...

Thomas Francis Schicker was sent to Mainside Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in...

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

Thomas Edward Pugh was sent to the Marine Recruit Depot for boot camp in San Diego, California. He was woken up early...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

Sumner Whitten was admitted to the training program as a PFC. When it was discovered that he had a college education he...

After his discharge, Frank Pantuso rode a bus back home to San Antonio [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas] where he...

The first day Dale LeBlanc was ashore on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: LeBlanc landed on Okinawa on 1 April 1945] they...

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