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Charles Brooks would have breakfast before dawn onboard the ship. He would then look to see his assignment for the day...

From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...

Kenneth E. Stevens and his outfit were the first Marines to get into the Poway Valley [Annotator's Note: in Poway,...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior went into the service as a green, inexperienced young man. During the war, he travelled...

James Pringle was born in Sumter, South Carolina in November 1925. Life growing up was rough. He worked in grocery...

Frank Pomroy arrived on Guadalcanal from New Caledonia after being left aboard the troopship George F. Elliot [...

As soon Philip Mayer got off the boat [Annotator's Note: in Melbourne, Australia], he was ordered to help extinguish a...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was a payroll clerk [Annotator's Note: in the 2nd Marine Division]. Everyone was trained in...

Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...

The battle on Tarawa provided countless opportunities for combat cameramen like Norman Hatch to capture story telling...

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

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