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Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

Milton Fernandez left the Galapagos Islands and sailed for Hawaii. At that time, the Japanese were everywhere in the...

At Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia], Benjamin Albert Glusing was shown how to get the Cosmoline [...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs enlisted into the Navy in the fall of 1942 and was inducted on 5 October 1942. At that time, the...

After eliminating the remainder of the artillery positions on Ngesebus Island, the 5th Marine Regiment returned to...

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...

After Guadalcanal, James Gulotta went to Bougainville. They did a lot of heavy fighting on Bougainville. The Marines...

Robert Hammond had to deal with his own health when he was on leave in Philadelphia. He had an appendectomy, and while...

Louis R. Lepore did not take part in the practice invasions at Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui, Hawaii] before going to...

When the 2nd Marine Division shipped out from New Zealand only the battalion commanders knew the specifics of the...

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