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Church did not know what to expect when he surrendered. There was about 5000 troops with over 4500 backups. There were...

Hilar Moore arrived at Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19 February through 26 March 1945] and the Navy...

The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...

Stanley Stewart said that, on the whole, he enjoyed his tour in the Pacific. He had been on Bougainville, Papua New...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

In June 1944, Kenneth Dwight Wells went by train to Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris...

Retracing his steps, Steve McMurray mentioned that on the way back from Iwo Jima he did a lot of pencil portraits of...

Ed Weber was born in March 1924 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He had one older brother. He moved to Dallas, Texas when he...

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

Burton "Burt" Johnson went to mortar school [Annotator's Note: M2 60mm mortar at Camp Elliot in San Diego, California...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox's [Annotator’s Note: serving with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...

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