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Bailey and the Marines got there [Annotator's Note: Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa] on the 11th [Annotator's Note: 11 June 1945...

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

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

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

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin "R.V." Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in...

Bailey feels that war should be over with. His division fought the Chinese in North Korea. Young men are fighting today...

Leo William Schmittgens remembered after all the firing ceased [Annotator's Note: after a firefight during the Battle...

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