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Jack Skaggs and his comrades were loaded aboard the Nitta Maru for departure from Wake. They left on 12 January 1942....

While Richard Keller was in Miami he got a phone call from a major asking if Keller wanted to go to the Command and...

William Stewart wore fatigues with big pockets. He would keep pocketbooks and would read while he waited in lines. He...

When David Thomason was at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

On Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: with the 5th Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945...

After the battle ended, Ira Schilling and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment,...

After doing shore duty for a couple weeks, Lincoln Grahlfs was transferred to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Northern Marianas...

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

Morris Semiatin volunteered for the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1944]. His brother was serving in the Army in...

William Lutz thought there would be more firing of weapons. He sat behind a machine gun. It was different from the...

Edward Bale operated the M4 Medium Tank [Annotator's Note: also known as the Sherman] during World War 2 except when he...

James was there for about 2 or 3 months for ground school. He was then shipped to Lafayette. He did not make his first...

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