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Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

Adolph Wilson and his outfit sailed back to Hawaii after Iwo Jima. They were being trained to assault Sasebo, Japan as...

Thomas Edward Pugh was sent to the Marine Recruit Depot for boot camp in San Diego, California. He was woken up early...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

While Robert Frederick Reed was stationed in El Centro [Annotator’s Note: El Centro, California before being deployed...

Robert Lowe was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was sent to Palmyra Atoll for two years of guard duty. They took a radar...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the Military Police Company, Headquarters Battalion, 5th...

Robert Lowe says war has its sadness. So many lost. It is always good to find some humor in a situation. That is what...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the Military Police Company, Headquarters Battalion, 5th...

Frank Pantuso's most memorable experience from World War 2 is the realization of the "reality of war; of knowing that...

Calvin Moore went to one place where a guy hit him with an axe. They were cutting black mahogany trees. He does not...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

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