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Henry Bourgeois' first air to air combat was over Bougainville. When the dive bombers went into their dive, the entire...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on Wake Island with the 12 airplanes of VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting...

Henry Bourgeois went to work in the aerospace industry for Singer as a sales engineer. He was then made a planner and...

Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll. The battery had an old 5 inch 51 gun [...

Louis R. Lepore joined the Marine Corps in September 1942 and retired in May 1971 after 29 years of service. Lepore...

Arthur Pendleton participated in a lot of covert operations. It was interesting work. Pendleton did not know the...

The training Marines receive is to make sure that they are always ready. After boot camp, Keith Renstrom went into...

Before going to Guam, Robert Powers and the four Marine Raider battalions were put into one regular unit, the 4th...

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

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

The National World War II Museum awarded Marine combat cameraman Norman Hatch with the Silver Service Award for his...

John Mikus, Jr. was in E Company, 26th Marines [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...

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