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William Jackson was born in April 1923 in El Paso, Texas. He lived there until he was 16 years old. He moved to...

Robert J. "Bob" Brasel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. They had a side yard and, in the summer of 1936, when it...

Dave Severance joined the Marine Corps in October 1938 at the age of 19. He was on liberty in Los Angeles when he first...

Lawrence N. Brooks was born in 1909 in Norwood, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge. Most of his youth was spent near...

Combat cameraman Norman Hatch was only about a quarter of a mile away from the mountain top [Annotator's Note: Mount...

Dale Bates flew seven missions as an instructor before the squad was disbanded in October 1944. Bates was then...

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

Asked to describe the fighting in which he participated, Earl Conklin referred to his position with the mortars. The...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] shows the footage of "Marines at Tarawa" [...

Leo Denault liked Westover Field [Annotator’s Note: Westover Field, Massachusetts] the best. He liked Tokyo [Annotator’...

Oscar Culp was able to write home during the time of his military service. The cost of postage has risen sharply over...

John Bradley [Annotator's Note: born in Manila, Philippines to an American father and Australian mother in 1936] cannot...

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