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When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Edward Riedl felt that if they did not kill, they would be killed themselves. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

After one patrol during which he was carrying a heavy BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle], Richard...

There would be holes in the line where there were not enough men [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1...

When Lazarick got back to his outfit on 5 December [Annotator's Note: 5 December 1944] they were up in the hills. The...

Vaughn Whitworth, like most segregated Marines, was in a Depot Company [Annotator's Note: 19th Depot Company, 7th Field...

Dupuy was rotated out after his escort missions on Truk. There was no system of rotation for pilots in the Pacific like...

They were escorting 1 of the carriers and their flight crew. Their flight crew got caught out at night. They attempted...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. At Tarawa [Annotator’s...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was a crewman on an LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also...

The first weapon William J. Twigger had when he entered the Marine Corps was the Springfield rifle [Annotator's Note: ....

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