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Richard Greer saw a few Red Cross things and the show Bob Hope was in on Pavuvu. He only watched for a little while...

Jimmie Dyer returned to the United States in July 1946. He wanted to surprise his family. His uncle was the undertaker...

The barracks Charles Womack and the other Marines stayed in when they were on Pavuvu the first time were still there...

Frank Pomroy and his fellow Marines walked down to the sandspit at the mouth of the Tenaru River and stared at the dead...

When William Lansford and the other members of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion were in New Zealand he was walking down...

Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...

On 1 December 1943, they [Annotator's Note: Dave Severance and the rest of the 3rd Marine Parachute Battalion] attacked...

Claude Shannahan joined the Raiders because he wasn't tall enough to be a paratrooper and because he liked the name. He...

After eliminating the remainder of the artillery positions on Ngesebus Island, the 5th Marine Regiment returned to...

Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...

Jeremiah “Jerry” O’Keefe found training intense. After preflight school at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

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