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Archibald Rackerby joined the Marine Corps on 27 December 1941 and went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note:...

Vaughn Whitworth boarded a troop train to Norfolk, Virginia where he loaded onto the USS James O'Hara (APA-90) and...

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

Jack Skaggs heard about Pearl Harbor on Monday morning, 8 December 1941. [Annotator's Note: Wake Island is west of, and...

The military aide told Hershel Williams to take the envelope and do not open it as it was a court martial offense if it...

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Robert Addison joined the United States Marine Corps on 7 January 1942. He spent three weeks at Parris Island and then...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Stix served in the US Marine Corps in Company D, 3rd Armored Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine...

Morris Semiatin was born in June 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland. He knew in the late 1930s that there was war going on. He...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

James Pringle arrived at Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] at the end of 1944. He registered, went through...

When Charles Womack and the other Marines in his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine...

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