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Willie Roy Hebert joined the Marine Corps due to their reputation. He came out of boot camp as a PFC [Annotator's Note...

Giles Bacon has seen some of the movies made about Pearl Harbor in recent years. He thinks the most accurate is Tora!...

Robert Lowe was born in Hutton, Louisiana in July 1922. He worked his way through high school during the Great...

When he set sail, Gerald West had never heard of Guadalcanal. He didn't learn about it until he was about to attack it...

After the war, Mac Glenn Morris returned to happy parents but no large celebration. He did what he had to do. He...

Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...

Clayton Hall was born in Harvey County on a farm near Newton [Annotator's Note: Newton, Kansas]. His father was in...

After eight weeks of boot camp, James Goodrich was sent to Camp Elliot. Camp Pendleton was not around at that time....

Learning of the Japanese surrender was a relief for Don Daniels. He was on a ship off Honolulu [Annotator's Note:...

Oscar Culp was deployed to American Samoa [Annotator's Note: after joining the Marine Corps and training in 1943]. On a...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

Richard O'Hara's most memorable experience of World War 2 was sailing into Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor...

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