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Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Paul J. Frisco and his fellow crewmen were not intimidated by the threat of kamikazes because of their supreme...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

[Annotator's Note: George Peto served in the US Marine Corps in a machine gun section in 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

On 1 September 1942 Tyler was transferred to the 44th [Annotator's Note: 44th Fighter Squadron] at Bellows Field as...

Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

Richard Higgins left Peleliu and went to Pavuvu and got off the ship. The next day a clerk told Higgins that he was...

Edward Bale did not see any particular danger to his tanks in the second and third day of combat on Tarawa except for...

[Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody served in the Navy as a pilot flying Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers with Bombing...

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