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Harry McKnight was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He had an older brother. The family moved to Ohio soon...

When Ed Weber first got overseas, the war was not going well. In August 1942 when the Marines took Guadalcanal [...

As soon as Stanley Stewart arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia, he was back in training. Assigned to the 1st Marine Air...

Robert E. McGovern's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his father died. He followed the war as a...

Ralph C. Franklin went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] before the division [Annotator's...

James Ramage was not pleased with the results [Annotator's Note: the results of the US Navy's attack on the Japanese...

Everywhere that Frederick Ellis went there was an officer's club. The enlisted men never got that. Every once in a...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Melvin Munch was born in 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in the portion of the city that was referred to...

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

The heat of our bodies is what saved their lives. They had charcoal heaters but were not given any charcoal. It was...

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

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