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Following departure from Guadalcanal, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] was...

In Norfolk, Claude Shannahan met a WAVE [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] girl during...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

James L. Wheeler was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] to train for the Battle of Japan....

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and Service Company, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

One of Angus Francis Mestayer's friends was lonesome and he wanted to go home. One guy on the rifle range climbed the...

Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...

After securing Ngesebus they went back across to Peleliu. It was James McEnery's birthday the day they made their...

The last thing Richard Greer and his fellow Marines did before leaving Guadalcanal was to dedicate a cemetery in honor...

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

The intelligence group was on Thomas Francis Schicker's outfit's [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

Leisey was born in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania May 10th, 1923. He moved to Honey Brook, Pennsylvania where he ended up...

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