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Ira Schilling and most of his comrades in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment changed a great deal after the...

George Colburn only heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor]. He was just a Private and...

Richard O'Hara was pissed off that he was not going home when the war ended. His wife, who was his high school...

Returning to Maui [Annotator's Note: returning to Maui, Hawaii from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] was the first...

Many years after the war, James Goodrich went back to Iwo Jima. The visit helped him a lot with his own feelings about...

Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...

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

Mack has had a good life. He worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for thirty five years. He retired in 1981. His...

Robert Erskine Hendrick did not find it too difficult to readjust to civilian life. He worked in the circulation...

William Pierce looked at the invasion of Japan as just another battle. His Marine regiment [Annotator's Note: Pierce...

Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

Francis John "Dick" Varone wanted to stay in the Marine Corps while he was overseas [Annotator's Note: with the 5th...

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