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William Sturman and a buddy liked the Navy and just picked it to join. He wanted to see the ocean. He was old enough to...

One time, Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine...

If Jacklyn Lucas's father had been alive, he would not have allowed him to go off to the service because he could...

Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

Rufus Harris was born in 1923 in Macon, Georgia. He lived there for four years and then they moved to New Orleans [...

Peter "Pete" Behr [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division]...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 3rd Amphibious Corps] returned to the United Stated...

The men were lined up waiting to be searched. A friend, Joe Perry, who later made full Commander devised a plan to get...

As first scout, John Wicklund carried a Thompson submachine gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun...

Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Clayton Fisher planned to join the Army Air Corps until a friend of his joined the Navy as an aviator. Fisher applied...

Dale Smith was born in Ontario, California in March 1925. His great grandfather moved there in 1892 and was a founder....

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