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Thomas Francis Schicker was told he was ready to go overseas. At Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps...

In his second year at Yale [Annotator's Note: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut], Walter Joseph Patrick Curley...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines laughed at the Japanese bombing the lagoon. Nothing was being accomplished while the...

As soon Philip Mayer got off the boat [Annotator's Note: in Melbourne, Australia], he was ordered to help extinguish a...

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

Clayton Hall and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] had...

Henry Baul believes the military offered a bit more racial respect than his civilian life. While in the Marine Corps,...

Mack has had a good life. He worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for thirty five years. He retired in 1981. His...

Basic training was rough for Raymond Loidolt. He was 18. It was lot of climbing with full packs on. Once you go through...

Jacklyn Lucas goes around the country on speaking tours. He wears his medal [Annotator's Note: the Medal of Honor; the...

David Heath was stationed near Henderson Field [Annotator's Note: American airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands...

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

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