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After the island of Saipan was secured, Ira Schilling and his assault engineer squad of 2nd Marine Division remained on...

Salvatore Famularo was born in Amsterdam, New York in September 1925. He had a sister and a brother. He was the oldest...

William Pierce felt it was his patriotic duty to fight during the Second World War. The Japanese had attacked the...

William Cart flew the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglass SBD Dauntless dive bomber]. It was easy to fly, and he enjoyed it...

Arthur Jackson was in the hospital in Noumea, New Caledonia for three or four weeks before being shipped back to the...

James Franklin Young was with his mortar unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

William Wayne was drafted and went to Fort Leonard Wood in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] for...

A few weeks after the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942], Leon Williamson returned to Ewa [...

In July 1943, Charles A. Waller joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp. Waller was made a squad leader in...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

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