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There were little pockets of resistance [Annotators Note: during the first days on Okinawa]. His company started...

William Pierce hated the Japanese before landing on Okinawa. Propaganda influenced his animosity. His feelings were...

Norman Hatch was asleep at his place in New York on the morning of 7 December 1941. He had preset his radio to turn on...

Walter Bowsher was at Pusan and then Inchon during the Korean War. He was told to report to a warrant officer for duty...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]...

Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

After the Battle of the Tenaru [Annotator's Note: also called the Battle of the Ilu River, 21 August 1942, Guadalcanal...

Edmund Durocher was alone for a while [Annotator's Note: on a ridge on Cape Gloucester, New Britain known as Coffin...

Carrol Smith did occupation duty in Nagasaki, Japan. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese...

lroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] built...

Joseph L. Harrison went back to a rear base at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: after participating in the retaking of...

William Cart fought in World War 2 because he "did not have a hell of a choice." He was 18, in good health, and they...

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