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Burton "Burt" Johnson went to mortar school [Annotator's Note: M2 60mm mortar at Camp Elliot in San Diego, California...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County,...

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

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled getting on the Higgins Boats [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or...

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

James Franklin Young and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

After Harold Rosen was wounded, he went back into action. The shrapnel was embedded and it allowed him to serve, but...

Dave Severance thought they would be sent home once they took the mountain [Annotator's Note: Mount Suribachi on Iwo...

Lloyd Dendy met the toughest guy ever in Korea. He had been hit in the cheek by shrapnel and lost a lot of his teeth....

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

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