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The train was moving fast. The train brought them to California. They brought the companies up to full strength. His...

On 11 July 1944, George Colburn and two others went into the Federal building in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston,...

Joseph L. Harrison went back to a rear base at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: after participating in the retaking of...

Frank Pomroy had decided to go on a third invasion regardless of whether or not he would be sent home. The Marines drew...

While Ralph Morse was in the hospital recovering from malaria, he was told he would not be going back to the Pacific [...

Gene Alair was assigned to a Transport Division Staff, CTD8, as a flag secretary and navigator aboard the USS Astoria (...

Adolph Wilson and his battalion of the Marine Paratroopers arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia. They had been preceded by...

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

Lowell Rodrigue [Annotator's Note: after joining the crew of the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] headed north to Kiska in the...

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

Frank H. O'Leary and his platoon set up on the Tenaru River [Annotator's Notes: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. On the...

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

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