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When he was discharged from Company C, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Floyd Fogg said he "had it good… but...

Romus Burgin was born in Jewett, Texas and stayed there until he graduated high school in 1941. He joined the Marine...

During George Vincent Ross's first night there [Annotator's Note: on Guam, mariana Islands], Marines were killed...

The following morning, Leon Williamson was sent to attack two heavy cruisers west of Midway Island [Annotator's Note:...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

Walter Bowsher made his first arrest while he was in the Army. He was serving as a temporary military policeman when he...

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

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was born in Sumner, Mississippi in July 1924. He lived in a rural community with lots of...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

The first thing that happened to Harry McKnight when he reached boot camp was a haircut. He was then given a rifle and...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

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