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Charles Martin was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator’s Note: in Oceanside, California] when they formed the 1st Amphibious...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was told...

Thomas Edward Pugh sailed into Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and saw the damage to the ships in...

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone joined the US Marine Corps in July 1940. After boot camp he joined the 1st Raider...

Landing on 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], Joe Clapper's platoon went into Okinawa right below Kadena, with...

Thomas Kolesa got married. He went to Edwardsville [Annotator's Note: Edwardsville, Illinois] and his mother was crying...

Louis Burg initially wanted to fly planes in the military, but his family did not want him to. His mother tore up his...

Mac Glenn Morris was born in January 1944 in Bessemer City, North Carolina. He had two older brothers. His father was...

George Colburn used the G.I. Bill to attend the Franklin Institute of Boston [Annotator's Note: Benjamin Franklin...

After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

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