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

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

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

Archibald Rackerby stayed in the Marine Corps after the war ended. He was not 100 percent after his injury. [Annotator'...

Edward Bale did not see any particular danger to his tanks in the second and third day of combat on Tarawa except for...

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

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

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

While Richard Greer and his fellow Marines were on Guadalcanal they were bombed almost constantly. They were hit at ten...

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

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

Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

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