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Buckley, James Life Aboard the USS LST-1013
James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...
de Jonge, Wim Forced Labor for the Japanese
Wim de Jonge was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] and worked for the Japanese on the railroad through Thailand...
McWilliams, Donald Marine Training to New Britain
Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams joined the Marine Corps on 17 March 1943. He trained at San Diego [Annotator's Note: US...
Lux, Gerald Reflections and Iwo Jima
Gerald Wayne Lux joined the service to give the Japanese what they had coming to them after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...
Bale, Edward Hawaii and Retraining
Edward Bale heard of a Japanese soldier throwing a magnetic mine on a tank inland of Red 3 beach. He did not learn the...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 3
They had also attacked the smaller fields in the area [Annotator's Note: the Japanese in the Philippines in December...
Smith, Jacques Becoming a Paratrooper
Jump school training was intense for Jacques Brewster Smith. He did a lot of running and swinging exercise. He was...
Cole, Edgar Going to Work and Reaction to Pearl Harbor
[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in the 52nd Defense...
Eshelman, Raymond Enlistment to USS LST-801
Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...
Lansford, William General Alan Shapley Takes Command and Bougainville
When William Lansford and the other members of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion were in New Zealand he was walking down...
Kellegrew, Kent War's End and Reflections
Kent Butzer Kellegrew does not remember when he was discharged but remembers that he was on Guam [Annotator's Note:...
Wicker, Benjamin Segment 2
Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotator’s Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

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