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Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. met Dr. Ozeki [Annotator's Note: Dr. Shigeyoshi Ozeki was a Japanese veteran of the Battle of...

Willie Roy Hebert joined the Marine Corps due to their reputation. He came out of boot camp as a PFC [Annotator's Note...

Captain Hunt [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Captain George P. Hunt] was no longer in command of K Company [...

Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...

When the battle initially started, Frank Pomroy was positioned with a water-cooled machine gun [Annotator's note: .30...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

Oscar Culp was deployed to American Samoa [Annotator's Note: after joining the Marine Corps and training in 1943]. On a...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

When he set sail, Gerald West had never heard of Guadalcanal. He didn't learn about it until he was about to attack it...

George Colburn got a ten-day leave to go home after bootcamp. Two of his buddies were home at the same time. He then...

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