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James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...

Ralph C. Franklin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 13 July 1920. Life was wonderful during his youth. Raised in a middle...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

Anthony Costa was born in Concord, California in January 1920. At the time, Concord was a small farm town. His father...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

While he was stationed at Camp Maui, situated on an extinct volcano, Steve McMurray said some of the units trained on...

Dave Severance thought they would be sent home once they took the mountain [Annotator's Note: Mount Suribachi on Iwo...

Charles Brooks was sent to VT-3 [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 3 (VT-3)] which was forming up on the big island at...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. realized that there were no officers to protect the Wake Island Marines who were prisoners of...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

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