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The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotators Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Following the battle of Okinawa, Richard Witaker learned more about Japanese strategies and preparations for the Marine...

Dr. Robert Beynon was born in August 1924 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1942 and enlisted in the Navy....

Jacob Velfling, Jr.'s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was at a farm behind enemy lines. He met two...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Arthur L. Eads did not talk about his World War 2 experience for many years. Fireworks make him very jittery. The war...

Oran Harris remembers that he served with people from all over United States. The Soutern boys didn't like the way the...

Donald Marsaglia’s crew landed in Biak [Annotator’s Note: Biak, Indonesia] right after a Japanese air raid. They left...

Lieutenant Babe Meeks informed William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, that the he...

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