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Charles Womack remembers that the bunkers and emplacements were often different from one to the next. He came across...

Elmer Koenig enlisted on 7 May 1943. He graduated from high school in June 1943. His parents expected him to join. In...

What they [Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves and his fellow crewmen aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200)] didn't...

Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Coming home was not a hard adjustment for Wendall Woodall. He and three others hired a guy to drive them to Kansas City...

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

Going through a barrier, James Bollich and a friend ran into Japanese troops after getting separated from the group....

Attack on 23 October 1944

With the 184th Regiment [Annotator's Note: 184th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] on the line at Hill 178,...

Before going to Guam, Robert Powers and the four Marine Raider battalions were put into one regular unit, the 4th...

In March or April [Annotator's Note: March or April 1944], Donald Draxler returned to Schofield Barracks [Annotator's...

Wanda Damberg got up to go to the bathroom one morning and saw a nun along the way [Annotator’s Note: Damberg was in...

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