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Clyde Hymel was born in Garyville, Louisiana in April 1926, and had fun growing up there. His father was a supervisor...

Frank Pantuso's outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division] was assigned to support...

Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...

John Wesley Tatum used a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun; while serving in Company H,...

James Shelton Scales was the battalion executive officer of the 1st Battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 23...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine] was assigned to Insular Patrol [Annotator's Note: with the Guam...

Ed Weber was on furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in Dallas [Annotator's...

Jimmie Dyer and the 6th Marine Division was sent to replace the Army's 27th Infantry Division in the south of Okinawa....

James J. Hill was with 12 others [Annotator's Note: of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 (VMF-214)] over Rabaul [Annotator's...

Bryon Oliver boarded a ship in Norfolk, Virginia. Twenty one days after passing through the Panama Canal, Oliver was at...

When the 2nd Marine Division shipped out from New Zealand only the battalion commanders knew the specifics of the...

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