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Clayton Hall went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San Diego,...

Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

Thomas Joseph Lemme was born in January 1926 in Albany [Annotator's Note: Albany, New York]. He had two older brothers...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...

[Annotator's Note: Sumner Whitten served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator dive bomber with Marine...

Paul Hilliard believes the SBD Dauntless is much underrated and unfortunately much unrecognized. WWII books sometimes...

Aboard ship, the head [Annotator's Note: naval slang for toilet or bathroom] was full. Nobody showed any fear...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

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

On 13 January 1944, Steve McMurray left on a troop transport ship and was amazed at the clear blue water of the Pacific...

Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

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