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While working on a road, Ben Steele would see men covered with mosquitos. They did not have mosquito nets to sleep with...

Walter Groth remembers the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had a great Air Force. Later...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox [Annotator's Note: serving with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

When they [Annotators Note: James Smith and the rest of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] went back to New Zealand, they...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

John Wesley Tatum used a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun; while serving in Company H,...

Edward Bale spent the first night on Tarawa sleeping next to a disabled LVT [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

In some ways, Ira Schilling felt he grew up very quickly due to his experience serving in the US Marine Corps during...

Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...

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