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In the Philippines, Theodore Pavlovich recalled searching hut-to-hut in a village where the natives had tried to ensure...

Harold DeForest landed in New Caledonia and was sent to a replacement center. There, he and another guy volunteered to...

Walter Broll sailed north of Iceland on his first convoy. The ship zig-zagged over the course of the voyage. He did...

Frank H. O'Leary took a job as the clothing quartermaster at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

There was a lot more going on in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] for Philip Curran,...

Richard Hebert, Sr. was born in June 1926 in Jennings, Louisiana with three brothers and three sisters. His brother...

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

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore about the weapons he carried.] A little short rifle [Annotator's...

On 31 December 1945, Monroe Scherer landed in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan; after leaving occupation duty in...

Russell Gackenbach was born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His family was Pennsylvania Dutch. His father was...

The last thing Richard Greer and his fellow Marines did before leaving Guadalcanal was to dedicate a cemetery in honor...

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