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Fred Wesighan has visited New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] but has never been to The National...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was out scouting [Annotator's Note: as part of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment,...

Richard Witaker spent six months in China with the 6th Marine Division after the war. He returned to the United States...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

Richard H. Kerr's most memorable experience is when a kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also...

It took Blanchard quite a while to get topside. There was a lot of smoke. The men had to move to get away from it all....

Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

Frank Pomroy estimates that the Japanese battleship bombardment [Annotator's Note: on the Marine positions on...

Joseph Vater's older brother was old enough to serve, but was married and had a child, so he was not drafted. Vater was...

Charles Chartier was sworn in in Detroit [Annotator’s Note: Detroit, Michigan]. He went to basic training at Fort Bragg...

Aristide "A.D." Durio and his unit [Annotator's Note: 43rd Infantry Division] was loading up to invade Japan. His...

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