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When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. realized that there were no officers to protect the Wake Island Marines who were prisoners of...

Frank H. O'Leary and his platoon set up on the Tenaru River [Annotator's Notes: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. On the...

At the end of the battle [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Louis R. Lepore was brought back to the beach and given a...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

After returning home, Clayton Hall went to work with an oil company for a week. He then went to work in a harvest field...

John Mikus, Jr. was never attacked from the air [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Arthur Pendleton never claimed his injuries. He does not know if he ever will or if he even wants to. The system is...

Eugene N. James was born in Brewton, Alabama. His father was a Methodist minister, and they spent a lot of time in West...

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