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Mervin Jensen went to advanced training at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San...

Earl Conklin joined the 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: as a rifle platoon leader in Company A, 1st Battalion,...

Following his liberation [Annotator's Note: from a Japanese prisoner of war camp], Howard Robert Charles arrived by air...

Matthew Cornelia was born in July 1918 and raised in Rochester, New York. His parents were both born in Ireland. At a...

Andrew Leblanc never had trouble. He kept his nose clean. He always did what he had to do, and he was a good soldier....

Dale Bates wanted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps and enrolled in college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon...

Virginia Wilterdink's most memorable experience of the war was hearing the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl...

The day the affair took place [Annotator's Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19-20 June 1944] they had not had...

Harvey Mittleman [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was shipped from...

Arthur Jackson had his squad leader bring up some explosives and ammo but he was alone for the most part [Annotator's...

Richard Nummer returned to the United States in July 1946 after being in Japan for nine months. While on the trip home...

Archibald "Archie" T. Higgins was born in New Orleans in January 1924. He is a lifelong resident of the New Orleans...

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