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

Walter Bowsher was at Pusan and then Inchon during the Korean War. He was told to report to a warrant officer for duty...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Division returned to Maui from Tinian. There was a big luau and then training started...

Claude Shannahan joined the 3rd Marines [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division]. He went with the...

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

Calvin Moore used his G.I. Bill to buy a house and go to school. The G.I. Bill was important to post World War 2...

Sidney Philips remembers explosions everywhere. Small arms fire everywhere. The total concern was for yourself. It is...

Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Corps Tank Battalion (medium)]...

James Shelton Scales majored in insurance when he was in college. He signed up as an insurance agent after the war. He...

There were usually 24 planes in James Bazet's squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 223 (VMF-223)], and...

The war made James Roland Westbrook a better person. He had not finished high school, so went home to Mississippi and...

Some days after eliminating the machine gun position, Romus Burgin and his fellow Marines faced another machine gun...

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