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Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] found that 11th Marine artillery was...

Kenneth Killilea received his Marine Corps boot camp training at Parris Island. The moment he stepped off the bus upon...

Harold Buell was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga (CV-3)] when she arrived at Midway following the...

After his tour on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, James Franklin Young and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Edmund Durocher landed on Guadalcanal weighing 156 pounds and left weighing 126. He had no socks because they had...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Richard Witaker volunteered for the United States Marine Corps because he was impressed by his friends who had done so...

Claude Shannahan’s unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Marine Raider Battalion] was relieved and shipped to New...

For Paul Hilliard, The National WWII Museum obtaining an SBD [Annotators Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] is a...

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