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On the way to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman crossed paths with a Navy ship that...

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

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] arrived at...

Mervin Jensen wanted to get back home to civilian life. He was running up the ladder and he was pulling himself along...

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Samuel Ukrop [Annotator's Note: while serving with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

After being discharged in August 1946, Harry McKnight went home and enrolled in the University of Ohio [Annotator's...

Thomas Goss was born in 1921 in Yonkers, New York but grew up in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York...

Sumner Whitten is proud to have survived the Battle of Midway. A few years ago he was contacted about Battle of Midway...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

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