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After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

When Allen Tillery got there [Annotator's Note: to Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Eniwetok in Febraury 1944] he was...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

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...

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

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