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Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the Alamo Scouts]...

Hershel Hibbard recalled the process of refueling the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)]. Another ship...

Charles Wesley Borders was home when the Japanese surrendered. He celebrated for a week. Borders fell in love with...

Francis John "Dick" Varone enlisted in the Marine Corps by himself. He waited until he received orders to report to...

Moving off the beach at Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...

Burton Johnson had multiple locations where Japanese prisoners were held in New Guinea. There was still hard fighting...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

Louis R. Lepore joined the Marine Corps in September 1942 and retired in May 1971 after 29 years of service. Lepore...

After Bougainville, James Salerno and the Raiders went to New Zealand for some R...

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