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Charles Stix was born in March 1925. His great-grandfather came to Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] from...

Edgar Harrell had very little energy and was just hoping for someone to discover him [Annotator's Note: while floating...

For the invasion of Japan, Richard Nummer and the American troops were issued wool blankets and green fatigues to fight...

Sergeant Carter [Annotator's Note: UNited States Marine Corps Sergeant James "Rudy" Carter] was a stickler for the...

Jimmie Dyer enlisted to fight in World War 2 because he thought that the country needed to fight. He never questioned...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

For the invasion of Peleliu, Charles Womack and the other Marines transferred off the ship into amtracs [Annotator's...

On D plus 2 [Annotator's Note: two days after landing day], they [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

William H Greason believed that African-American servicemen helped the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, Greason was a...

Sumner Whitten was born in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school he went to Amherst College. In college he was in...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

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