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Nelson, Walter Hits on the Japanese Carriers at Coral Sea
Walter Nelson recognized that they were close enough that they could have bailed over Australia if they needed to. From...
Colburn, George Finding a Young Japanese Kid
[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...
Griffith, Leon Engaging the Japanese
Leon Griffith was on Dinagat Island [Annotator's Note: Dinagat Island, Philippines] and the Japanese sent a barge of...
Lebow, Cleatus Life and Entrance Into Service
Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...
Townsend, Joseph Newspaper Routes
Joseph Townsend was born in April 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He grew up in Shreveport. He had two brothers and two...
Dragich, Charles Going Home and Bataan
In Busan, South Korea, the USS Hulbert [Annotator’s Note: USS Hulbert (DD-342)] was waiting for Charles Dragich [...
Gehrett, John Navy Supply Officer in the Philippines
After American troops assaulted the Philippines, John Gehrett [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2...
Salerno, James Joining the Raiders
James Salerno was born in Summit, New Jersey, in 1918. Before the war he worked as a clerk in a store. Salerno chose...
Curley, Walter Marine Corps Officer Training
In his second year at Yale [Annotator's Note: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut], Walter Joseph Patrick Curley...
Bourgeois, Emiline West Point Hospital Duty
Emiline Ann Bourgeois was stationed at West Point [Annotator's Note: as an Army nurse at the hospital of the United...
Carson, Benjamin Postwar
Benjamin Carson was on Guam when the war in the Pacific came to an end. All of the ship whistles and horns were blowing...
Severance, Dave Pearl Harbor, Defending the West Coast and Vella Lavella
Dave Severance joined the Marine Corps in October 1938 at the age of 19. He was on liberty in Los Angeles when he first...

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