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Edmund Durocher landed on Guadalcanal weighing 156 pounds and left weighing 126. He had no socks because they had...

Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...

Calvin Moore went to one place where a guy hit him with an axe. They were cutting black mahogany trees. He does not...

As the Japanese aircraft came in, they [Annotator's Note: the Navy] would fire antiaircraft at them [Annotator's Note:...

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

Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...

Claude Shannahan left Samoa for New Caledonia and from there shipped out to Tulagi aboard the USS Little (APD-4), an...

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

Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

Despite his father's initial objection, William Hall was excited to be activated as a Marine. Hall was sent to San...

Daniel J. Lawler [Annotator's Note: serving with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in...

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