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Richard Witaker heard about the war ending in Europe and was grateful. More supplies would be coming to the Pacific. In...

Charles Stix took an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to the invasion of Peleliu [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu,...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior went into the service as a green, inexperienced young man. During the war, he travelled...

Bloody Ridge had other names but that night it was officially named Bloody Ridge. It was the one spot that the Japanese...

Adolph Wilson fought through some of the worse jungles on Bougainville. It had everything imaginable. It rained every...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was a payroll clerk [Annotator's Note: in the 2nd Marine Division]. Everyone was trained in...

Charles Martin was born in August 1922 in Nebraska. He had one brother that died when he was an infant. His father was...

After Bougainville, William Lansford went back to the United States. He was a high point guy. Back in the United States...

Landing on Iwo Jima was not much different to Michael Mervosh and his men than some of their other amphibious landings...

When the morning came, someone told Jack Houston that he 22nd [Annotator's Note: 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine...

From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...

Carrol Smith was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in March 1925. He grew up outside of town. It was a good place to grow...

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