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After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

Willie Roy Hebert joined the Marine Corps due to their reputation. He came out of boot camp as a PFC [Annotator's Note...

James Buckley's first landing [Annotator's Note: as a Deck Officer on the USS LST-1013] was on Leyte during the return...

As soon Philip Mayer got off the boat [Annotator's Note: in Melbourne, Australia], he was ordered to help extinguish a...

Fred Bergeron was 19 years old when he took part in the Battle of Midway. He did not really have any idea just how...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

Because James McCorriston had attended machinist mate school, he was transferred to the B Division [Annotator's Note:...

Once assigned to the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron [Annotator's Note: 17th Reconnaissance Squadron, 71st Reconnaissance...

Benjamin Hagans was born in July 1929 in Cebu, the Philippines. His father was an engineer in Cuba. His father was an...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when they dropped the atomic bomb [...

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