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Phillips, Sidney From Pearl Harbor to Parris Island
Sidney Philips remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor while sitting at a drug store counter on the corner of Dauphin and...
DeForest, Harold Training, Citizenship and Overseas Deployment
From Fort Custer, Harold DeForest was sent to Camp Wheeler, Georgia for 13 weeks of basic training. They were on the...
Ducharme, O'Neill Learning to Be a Marine
O’Neil Ducharme was born in February 1925 near Elizabeth Falls, Maine. His parents immigrated to Maine from Canada in...
Stalled Marine tanks and jeeps of the 'Fighting Fourth' Division on Iwo Jima beach 19 February 1945
514.Photograph 'CinCPac 8013 26 February 1945 D-Day wreckage Stalled Marine tanks and jeeps of the 'Fighting Fourth'...
Navy men wounded during the invasion of Iwo Jima while aboard the USS New York are buried on the island on 19 February 1945
553.Photograph 'File Number: 48599 Released: March 4, 1945 Taps for the Honored Dead Three Navy men who were wounded in...
Pritchard, James Early Life and Becoming a Marine
James H. "Jim" Pritchard was born in August 1925 in Ottawa, Kansas. He grew up there. He had three sisters and two...
West, Gerald L. The Battle of Bloody Ridge
Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...
Ellis, Frederick First Kamikaze
Frederick Ellis was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea. He recalls that they were not slated to go on the Leyte [Annotator's...
Kelley, John Liberating the Los Baños Prison Camp
John Kelley took part in the raid on the Los Baños prison camp [Annotator's Note: Los Baños Internment Camp, Los Baños...
Roy, William Reflections
William G. Roy is proud of his role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. He thinks that the...
West, Gerald L. The Matanikau and Leaving Guadalcanal
Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...
Leisey, Alvin Segment 5
Leisey recalls having to do sponge ball therapy so he could build up the strength up in his hand. He has problems...

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