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When James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division]...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

Daniel J. Lawler deployed to the Pacific in November 1943. He felt sufficiently trained. Training was hell, but he used...

Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

Church had different responsibilities on Guam. His first assignment was to handle anything to do with recreation....

Dave Severance recalls some of the Japanese soldiers continuing to fight against the Army relief units and some even...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

Charles Brooks saw purple flak on his first combat mission off the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

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

Archibald Rackerby volunteered to become a Marine Raider. He was a corporal and was in charge of classifying incoming...

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

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