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Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

From Fort Custer, Harold DeForest was sent to Camp Wheeler, Georgia for 13 weeks of basic training. They were on the...

The war made John Snyder more passionate. His love of children and helping others came from his work in the war. At his...

David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

Joseph L. Harrison and his unit [Annotator's Note: the 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] went back to...

Walter Broll passed through the station [Annotator's Note: the Merchant Marine training station at Sheepshead Bay in...

After 29 days aboard ship, O’Neil Ducharme landed at Guadalcanal [Annotator’s Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. Upon...

James Smith recalled that the Japanese attacked at around nine that night and things were going bad. A number of...

[Annotator's Note: Rattling dishes can be heard in the background.] Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby [...

Harold DeForest landed in New Caledonia and was sent to a replacement center. There, he and another guy volunteered to...

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