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Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...

Salvatore Famularo [Annotator's Note: and his fellow Marines in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th...

Charles Womack remembers the terrain on New Guinea being thick jungles with vines growing wildly throughout and near...

Richard Greer was in the hospital when John Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor. Greer was supposed to have been in...

Melvin C. Whitman did his basic training in San Diego [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San...

Lloyd Dendy was in the hospital with malaria and did not return to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. He had...

Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotators Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...

Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on lookout duty with hi-powered binoculars when the first invasion attempt on Wake Island...

Following the Japanese surrender, Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] made an American...

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