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Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

William Wayne was drafted and went to Fort Leonard Wood in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] for...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

Walter Bowsher worked on an effort called the Mount Fuji Project which was supposedly building a children's playground...

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

On 30 August 1945, O’Neil Ducharme [Annotator’s Note: with the 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] went ashore at...

Arthur Jackson was born in Cleveland and grew up in Canton, Ohio. His father was a watch maker and eventually ended up...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

In July 1943, Charles A. Waller joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp. Waller was made a squad leader in...

It is important to study and learn about World War 2 as well as World War 1 [Annotator's Note: global war originating...

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

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

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