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Thomas Goss was born in 1921 in Yonkers, New York but grew up in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York...

Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Pendleton served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gunner in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

Gerry Jones discusses Eleanor Roosevelt's visit the South Pacific to assess the well being of the 1st Marine Division....

[Annotator's Note: A portion of the video is cut out.] Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

William Pierce had steak and eggs before boarding the Higgins Boat [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel...

William Lansford continued training while he was in Hawaii waiting for the Raiders who had carried out the raid on...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] felt that capturing combat on film was very...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

In Hawaii, they [Annotator's Note: James Goodrich and the rest of the 5th Marine Division] trained for the landing on...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

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