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Gerry Jones had joined the Marine Scout and Sniper Company, which was different than the Marine Raiders as he explains...

James Stewart Rosenbaum heard about the surrender of Germany while he was fighting in Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd...

Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

Ray Dennis Irby was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] for two years [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

James Stewart Rosenbaum's most memorable experience was when his friend went on a mission and was killed by a sniper....

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

Louis John Walter sailed on the James Fallen [Annotator's Note: unable to verify ship name]. A couple of Walter's...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

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