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Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

[Annotator's Note: James McEnery served in the USMC as a rifleman in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

Daniel J. Lawler was born in 1925 in Glens Falls [Annotator's Note: Glens Falls, New York]. His father worked in the...

James Wilson's platoon leader [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels was part of a Marine machine gun crew during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.] He says...

Deen believes the mortar team helped to save the men at the point [Annotators Note: on Peleliu, September 1944]. He...

Charles Martin did not want to be drafted into the Army. He tried to enlist in the Air Force cadet school. He passed...

After arriving on Pavuvu Island, Romus Burgin and the rest of the 1st Marine Division began training for the invasion...

Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

Oscar Culp was able to write home during the time of his military service. The cost of postage has risen sharply over...

On the way to Okinawa, Joe Clapper answered a call on the ship's horn for all those wounded on Peleliu to appear...

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