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Michael Maziarczyk was ready to return home. It took them 12 hours to get from Hawaii to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

Lloyd Dendy was in the hospital with malaria and did not return to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. He had...

Richard Witaker volunteered for the United States Marine Corps because he was impressed by his friends who had done so...

On the 16th [Annotators Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in...

Church had different responsibilities on Guam. His first assignment was to handle anything to do with recreation....

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

When the Japanese came ashore they had battleships, planes, and superior equipment. Church and his men were using .30...

Home base for William Beaman and the USS Flasher (SS-249) was Perth, Australia. At the end of a two month mission, the...

Claude Bufford Shaw didn't come immediately back to the United States when the war ended as he was making a career of...

Oran Harris did not know the exact nature of his mission on Palawan Island until he reached the prison. A Navy ship in...

There has not been three and a half years of William J. Twigger's life that have had such a profound effect on him as...

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