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The Americal [Annotator's Note: the US Army Americal Division] came in in October [Annotator's Note: October 1942] and...

Frank H. O'Leary and his platoon set up on the Tenaru River [Annotator's Notes: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. On the...

Claude Shannahan’s unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Marine Raider Battalion] was relieved and shipped to New...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

When the grenade blew Quintana off the hill he does not remember if it knocked him unconscious but he does remember...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

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

Adolph Wilson and his battalion of the Marine Paratroopers arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia. They had been preceded by...

Frank Pomroy had decided to go on a third invasion regardless of whether or not he would be sent home. The Marines drew...

[Annotator's Note: Archibald Rackerby was wounded by friendly fire while training on Guadalcanal on 9 March 1944.]...

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

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