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

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

George Peto produced some paintings and pieces of propaganda that were based on his unit during battle in the Pacific....

Richard O'Hara had one brother three and a half years older than him who went in the Marines earlier than O'Hara. He...

George Colburn had never been away from home until arriving at Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

After returning stateside, Adolph Wilson and a group of Marines drove from San Diego to Shreveport. They stopped at...

In 1944, Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior trained in maneuvers, amphibious invasion training, and other physical...

The Marine Raiders formed from Gerald West's old battalion, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. The Raiders were...

Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in Company K...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe and men from his outfit, a detachment of the US Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battlion, were...

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