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After arriving on Pavuvu Island, Romus Burgin and the rest of the 1st Marine Division began training for the invasion...

George Peto and the men of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines had a few days of rest and got new guns then moved out...

Frank H. O'Leary and his platoon set up on the Tenaru River [Annotator's Notes: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. On the...

The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...

Jacklyn Lucas returned to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] in 1985. He has been back there three times and...

Quintana did not mention events from the war too often; he talked about the war later in life. After he had his glass...

James McEnery is a Catholic, Irish-American from Brooklyn. He considers anyone from his background who is not...

Frank Pryor combated loaded his troopship in Hilo, Hawaii. The fleet came together at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], John Edward...

Gerry Jones recalls that the Japanese would push the Okinawan [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] natives through the...

When Arthur Pendleton was on the ridge he recalled a shell from a Japanese naval gun landing in front of them. The...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

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