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Richard Witaker heard about the war ending in Europe and was grateful. More supplies would be coming to the Pacific. In...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

Oscar Culp was born in May 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a young African-American, he saw some of the biases...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] wrote about his experiences to Leatherneck...

Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

Thomas Francis Schicker heard that they changed course four different times [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS General...

After returning stateside, Adolph Wilson and a group of Marines drove from San Diego to Shreveport. They stopped at...

George Peto produced some paintings and pieces of propaganda that were based on his unit during battle in the Pacific....

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

In 1944, Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior trained in maneuvers, amphibious invasion training, and other physical...

The Marine Raiders formed from Gerald West's old battalion, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. The Raiders were...

Eugene N. James was born in Brewton, Alabama. His father was a Methodist minister, and they spent a lot of time in West...

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