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[Annotator's Note: John Stiles went to Marine Corps boot camp training in San Diego, California.] They were given...

Theodore Marolda received orders to board a transport bound for the Solomon Islands after it was discovered the...

Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...

Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

Archibald Rackerby stayed in the Marine Corps after the war ended. He was not 100 percent after his injury. [Annotator'...

Mack was attached to the Sixth Marine Division and sent to Guadalcanal for training. The Sixth Marine Division was...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] boarded a...

Vaughn Whitworth did not decide to fight in World War 2, he was inducted. He felt it was his duty to go along. He did...

When he set sail, Gerald West had never heard of Guadalcanal. He didn't learn about it until he was about to attack it...

Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] had his share of close calls on Bloody Ridge...

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