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Joseph Burrell was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1922. His family moved to Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...

John Reeder was unhappy with the way the reserve officers were being treated; he had overheard his commanding officer...

Charles Martin remembers that the new tanks had 75 mm howitzers on them. Martin and a friend learned how to swim...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

John Stiles took part in the occupation of Japan. He had to get a driver's license for Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Philip Mayer was born in June 1925 in Hollister, California where his family had a ranch. In 1930, his family moved to...

William Douglas Lansford was born in 1922 in Los Angeles. His father was an Anglo from Texas and his mother was a...

Albert G. Sutcliffe was taken from the Battle of Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...

In Hawaii, they [Annotator's Note: James Goodrich and the rest of the 5th Marine Division] trained for the landing on...

James Goodrich landed [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima] on Red Beach 1 with the 2nd Battalion [Annotator's Note: 2nd...

Willie Roy Hebert qualified as expert on the M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Henry Baul believes the military offered a bit more racial respect than his civilian life. While in the Marine Corps,...

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