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Frank Pomroy estimates that the Japanese battleship bombardment [Annotator's Note: on the Marine positions on...

A few weeks after the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942], Leon Williamson returned to Ewa [...

Roger A. Lewis went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] for training. Then they [Annotator'...

There were plenty of men with shell shock [Annotator's Note: psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to...

Gerry Jones trained with the United States Marines, joining the Scout and Sniper Company at Camp Elliott [Annotator's...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

There were a lot of good guys in Frank Stewart's unit with the exception of some of the officers. On Guadalcanal,...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Samuel Ukrop was at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with John Cleveland [Annotator's Note...

Frank Pomroy tells the story of how he and Bill Hollman became friends. He was on Guadalcanal for five months and...

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

During and after the Battle of Saipan, Ira Schilling and his fellow Marines willingly accepted enemy troops who...

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