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Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] felt that capturing combat on film was very...

The war itself is Alvin von Frisch's worse memory of that time. He hated to see people die. He lost good friends who...

As Peter Paret's battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division] moved down...

Bruno S. Rinas believes that had the Americans been given better training and equipment, they would have held out...

On 7 December 1941, Theodore Pavlovich, along with many of his fellow riflemen, was on their barracks roof using the...

Charles Chartier thought he would go where it was nice and warm. He joined his outfit overseas. As they left Seattle,...

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was born in Neenah, Wisconsin in December 1923. He grew up with three brothers. Babbits'...

Alfred Taddeo became an instructor at Melbourne, Florida where he met several former VF-10 [Annotator's Note: Fighting...

Russell Gackenbach participated in the dropping of the second atomic bomb. On that mission, he was the navigator on the...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...

Sidney Philips remembers the Marines bringing the amphibious tank up the creek from the beach. It was just sitting...

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