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Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Division returned to Maui from Tinian. There was a big luau and then training started...

Asked to describe the fighting in which he participated, Earl Conklin referred to his position with the mortars. The...

Morris Semiatin [Annotator's Note: wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 February to 26 March 1945, while...

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

Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Corps Tank Battalion (medium)]...

Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

lroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] built...

The first name on the list leaving for the camp Tanagawa was Ray Church. McLean had arranged for this transfer as a way...

On 1 April 1945, James Stewart Rosenbaum, and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th...

William Hall heard a Japanese bomber fly a scouting mission over Midway Island. The squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when they dropped the atomic bomb [...

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