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Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...

James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....

Burton "Burt" Johnson was born in December 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was seven, he spent the summer at...

[Annotator's Note: Allen Tillery served in the USMC as a Japanese language specialist. For the campaign in the Marshall...

Okinawa is something of a blur in Romus Burgin's mind. Unlike New Britain and Peleliu, battles from which he can...

O’Neil Ducharme was born in February 1925 near Elizabeth Falls, Maine. His parents immigrated to Maine from Canada in...

Angus Francis Mestayer's outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Air Wing] was split in half while he was on Green Island...

Richard Keller's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] went back to...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell’s boat [Annotator's Note: McConnell served as an officer aboard patrol torpedo boats,...

On 1 July 1943, Louis Burg [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942] was ordered to active duty and...

Cass Phillips flew toward New Guinea from Hawaii making several stops at small islands along the southwesterly route....

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