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Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...

[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...

Calvin Moore went to one place where a guy hit him with an axe. They were cutting black mahogany trees. He does not...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe was there [Annotator's Note: on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu] for two or three months before...

Robert Erskine Hendrick did not find it too difficult to readjust to civilian life. He worked in the circulation...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

They got on three different ships to haul the First Marine Division on August 25th [Annotators Note: 1944]. They...

The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...

The Japanese were underneath the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] while the Marines were on it. James Shelton...

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