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Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], and was...

Gerry Jones discusses Eleanor Roosevelt's visit the South Pacific to assess the well being of the 1st Marine Division....

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] was taken [...

Joe Morris and his unit [Annotator's Note: 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were part of the...

On Guadalcanal, Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment faced some enemy air raids and naval...

After basic training Richard Greer and the other Marines from his boot camp class went to Norfolk, Virginia where they...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

Benjamin Carson served with James Roosevelt who was President Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note: President Franklin D....

Charles Martin remembers that the new tanks had 75 mm howitzers on them. Martin and a friend learned how to swim...

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