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Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

In 1940, David Heath graduated high school and went to work on a farm. Later that year, he joined the Marines [...

James Shelton Scales was a battalion commander [Annotator's Note: of 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Rosa was part of a wealthier bunch according to Church. Church went back after the war to find her but she had gone...

Lloyd Dendy was the company bootlegger on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. They made a still out of aluminum...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

Following departure from Guadalcanal, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] was...

They [Annotator’s Note: Jacklyn Lucas and his fellow Marines of Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...

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

Deen recalls thinking how lucky he was that he was not killed on the first day [Annotators Note: 15 September 1944 on...

Jack Skaggs was transferred from the Kiangwan POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp to Osaka, Japan in August...

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