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Deen recalls thinking how lucky he was that he was not killed on the first day [Annotators Note: 15 September 1944 on...

Salvatore Famularo remembers it was an all-out war when he went. His most memorable moment was getting out of Iwo Jima...

Warren J. Haslauer [Annotator's Note: with the 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] was sitting in the mess hall...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

Sidney Philips remembers the whole platoon being sent away to Lejeune. Most of the men were put into the 1st Regiment....

Despite his father's initial objection, William Hall was excited to be activated as a Marine. Hall was sent to San...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Robert J. Ferris was born in January 1922 in Pittsford, New York. He had one older brother. His father worked as a...

Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the battle of Okinawa, Japan], Harry McKnight was sent back to Guam [Annotator's Note...

Edward Bale heard of a Japanese soldier throwing a magnetic mine on a tank inland of Red 3 beach. He did not learn the...

Not far from Naha [Annotator's Note: Naha, Okinawa, Japan], Melvin C. Whitman got into a 20 plus hour artillery duel....

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