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Joe Clapper was born in Jonesboro, Indiana, but grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He joined the Marine Corps just out of...

Oscar Culp was deployed to American Samoa [Annotator's Note: after joining the Marine Corps and training in 1943]. On a...

In July 1945 at Camp Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui Island, Hawaii], James Shelton Scales and his staff [Annotator's Note...

On 30 August 1945, O’Neil Ducharme [Annotator’s Note: with the 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] went ashore at...

Edgar Cole went to communications school and finished at the head of his class. He was automatically assigned to...

George Colburn got a ten-day leave to go home after bootcamp. Two of his buddies were home at the same time. He then...

Adolph Wilson thinks The National WWII Museum is great. It shows appreciation for the veterans who served in the war....

Frank Pantuso was born in November 1925 in San Antonio, Texas. He says his mother and father worked hard to support the...

Robert Lowe boarded the USS Tangier (AV-8) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii [Annotator's Note: on 15 December 1941]. He wondered...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] returned to his unit...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

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