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Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

John Reeder was unhappy with the way the reserve officers were being treated; he had overheard his commanding officer...

In Combat Intelligence school they learned to analyze and creep up on Japanese emplacements, the types of troops, type...

Cape Gloucester was a rough campaign for Arthur Pendelton. They captured prisoners. Some of the fellas that had lost...

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

Lloyd Dendy thinks that they shot several [Annotator's Note: Japanese] aircraft down while on Woodlark Island. There...

Albert G. Sutcliffe was taken from the Battle of Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...

The second day they were run out by the Japanese again [Annotators Note: On Okinawa, April 1945]. Deen notes that it...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin "R.V." Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in...

James Pringle is proud to have been one of the first Civil Rights pioneers [Annotator's Note: by being a Montford Point...

James Bowie joined the Marine Corps. He only knew what he saw in the newsreels. He had an uncle who served in the Navy...

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