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Richard Greer experienced some bayonet fighting during the Battle for Henderson Field but more so at Point Cruz. They...

Oscar Culp was born in May 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a young African-American, he saw some of the biases...

George Colburn had never been away from home until arriving at Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit...

The veterans felt better having other veterans around. When replacements came in Robert Akins knew that they were well...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

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

Quintana did not mention events from the war too often; he talked about the war later in life. After he had his glass...

Arthur Pendleton was friends with Johnny Rivers. Pendelton was in 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, which was machine guns....

One of Angus Francis Mestayer's friends was lonesome and he wanted to go home. One guy on the rifle range climbed the...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe and men from his outfit, a detachment of the US Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battlion, were...

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