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George Colburn only heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor]. He was just a Private and...

Mack was born in his grandparents home. He lived there as an infant. When he got a little older his parents moved to a...

Robert Lowe says war has its sadness. So many lost. It is always good to find some humor in a situation. That is what...

In this segment, Joe Clapper reviewed photographs that visually record the history of his platoon [Annotator's Note:...

Hershel Williams does not remember knocking out some of the pillboxes. One of them, however, Williams remembers, ran...

When the Battle of the Tenaru River ended, Lieutenant Port recommended Frank Stewart for the Navy Cross but the captain...

Thomas Joseph Lemme teamed up with a fellow named John Prentice Brown [Annotator's Note: Lemme was drafted into the...

Gravois was born in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana and grew up in Edgard, Louisiana until he was 17.Pearl Harbor was on 7...

Charles Brooks landed on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] just in time for the attack on the...

Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...

[Annotator's Note: Dale LeBlanc served in the USMC as a runner in the 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division. He...

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