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Martin Banyas has restricted use of his shoulders as a result of his wartime service [Annotator's Note: as a Marine...

Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...

Quintana had to board an Australian ship that left from American Samoa. On Tulagi, the landing was rougher than...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. saw that he [Annotator’s Note: then US Marine Corps Major; later Brigadier General, James...

When Robert Powers invaded Guam, he did not go in on one of the new amphibious tractors [Annotator's Note: Landing...

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

When Company I came to the relief of a decimated Company K, George Peto, who served as a forward mortar observer,...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman [Annotator's Note: a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Marine Scout-Bomber...

Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...

Charles A. Waller’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was his interaction with General MacArthur [Annotator's...

Harold Rosen was born in Dallas, Texas in April 1925. His father owned his own business so the depression did not hit...

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