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While on Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], the island was not fully secured. Haney...

William Lutz was born in March 1920 and raised in Reading [Annotator’s Note: Reading, Pennsylvania]. He had a good life...

The worst camp Pearson Riddle stayed at was every camp following his experience in China. The worst camp he stayed in...

Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...

Church did not know what to expect when he surrendered. There was about 5000 troops with over 4500 backups. There were...

Ray Fitzgerald was born in March 1922 in Union County in North Mississippi. He grew up there in a rural home. The draft...

In January 1944, Philip Nelson was training on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in San Diego [Annotator’s...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

William Winter assumed that after finishing OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] he would be sent to an...

James Patterson was called up on 23 February 1943. He was sent to boot camp with a bunch of other reservists. They...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was...

Charles Bruce was on the USS Lander (APA-178). Their job was to haul men and equipment wherever they needed to go. They...

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