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Just about every day there was something amazing for Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st...

Morris Semiatin volunteered for the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1944]. His brother was serving in the Army in...

There was a lot of Uncle Sam [Annotator's Note: Uncle Sam; a common national personification of the federal government...

Jacklyn Lucas was just asking God to save him [Annotator's Note: after being wounded by the hand grenade he jumped on...

Elroy Gambino and the Marines [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

The first weapon William J. Twigger had when he entered the Marine Corps was the Springfield rifle [Annotator's Note: ....

Gerry Jones feels that the Japanese soldiers were very tough men. He was able to track Japanese soldiers easily by the...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and Service Company, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Leisey believes that the Marine Corps teaches one to be a giver as well. He sometimes wakes up in the middle of the...

Frank Pryor was well supplied on Iwo Jima. The SeaBees [Annotator's Note: members of US naval construction battalions]...

When he got out of the military, David Heath used the G.I. Bill. Before the war, he worked in a garage overhauling...

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