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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team (the Bushmasters) push a jeep ashore...

Martin Carmody was briefed that there were no available carriers for them to fly off of. The Saratoga [Annotator's Note...

Thomas Francis Schicker and Leo [Annotator's Note: no last name given; unable to identify] were given mess duty in...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

David Heath was stationed near Henderson Field [Annotator's Note: American airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands...

In June 1942, after mortar training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville,...

James Franklin Young and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Martin Carmody was on Guadalcanal for two or three days. The USS Enterprise (CV-6) had gone to the harbor at Espiritu...

Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

After the Battle of the Tenaru River, Frank H. O’Leary and his squad were only given one and half meals a day because...

Claude Shannahan's worst memories from Guadalcanal were largely from Bloody Ridge. With the Japanese approaching from...

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