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

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

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

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

At night around Henderson field the fighting was rough [Annotators Note: on Guadalcanal]. Quintana could only aim at...

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

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th Marine Defense Battalion on Eastern Island, Midway...

The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...

Michael Mervosh kept his binoculars in his pack the rest of the battle and he is thankful that he did. About a week...

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