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Eugene Corson was happy to be in the Navy. It was rough. He went to boot camp in Rhode Island at an airbase. He could...

Benjamin Albert Glusing was born in February 1916. He was born in southeastern Kansas on a farm near the town of...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

James Salerno believes that World War 2 made him a better person. It made him feel lucky to be alive. He feels like it...

Roy Stewart went to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California...

Robert Powers returned to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], which had been built up since he had last...

There was no dentist in the camp and James Bollich had some teeth decaying. Anytime someone was sick and thought they...

Glenn Frazier was transferred to Tanagawa. The Japanese were digging into a mountain to create a dry-dock. The overhead...

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

William Lansford took part in the Long Patrol with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal. Most of the time he...

George A. Damiano recalls when the Marines accidently fired on his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

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