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Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island on 23 December 1941 when the Japanese launched their amphibious invasion of the island....

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...

When the 2nd Marine Division shipped out from New Zealand only the battalion commanders knew the specifics of the...

Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...

On the way to China, the ship Raymond Loidolt was on ran into a hurricane [Annotator's Note: typhoon]. The ship was...

[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...

When Charles Womack and the other Marines in his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Kolesa landed on Okinawa, Japan with the Searchlight Battery, 8th Antiaircraft Artillery...

Harold G. Cowart trained on an M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1...

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