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When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Addison served in the USMC as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody...

Gerald West didn't think often of the Raiders after the war. In recent years the numerous reunions and meetings West...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

The Medusa [Annotator's Note: USS Medusa (AR-1)] was not far from them [Annotators Note: during the attack on Pearl...

Robert Kinzler didn't move with his regiment [Annotator's Note: 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division] to...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

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

Following departure from New Georgia, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] reached...

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

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 (...

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