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After returning stateside, Adolph Wilson and a group of Marines drove from San Diego to Shreveport. They stopped at...

James Wilson left Peleliu [Annotator's Note: after the Battle of Peleliu, September to November 1944, Peleliu, Palau]...

William Wayne had joined the Marine Corps with John Shepperly who got shot through the arm landing on Iwo Jima, Japan....

Of all the ports Woods visited he liked Panama the best because it was like being back at home. There was a good...

Thomas Kolesa and his wife were able to get a place to live in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] that...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Robert Templet was aboard the USS Roxanne (AKA-37) when the Japanese surrendered. During the course of the war, the...

Robert Taylor made the landing [Annotator's Note: on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea] on LSTs [Annotator...

Clarence Strobel’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was serving in the honor guard for General MacArthur [...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

James Roy Colquitt had his Navy boot camp training at San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. He was...

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