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Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Cass Phillips flew toward New Guinea from Hawaii making several stops at small islands along the southwesterly route....

Martin Carmody was on Guadalcanal for two or three days. The USS Enterprise (CV-6) had gone to the harbor at Espiritu...

Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....

John Ream’s wife traveled from place to place her whole life. He could pick between the police or the military for a...

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

Bruno S. Rinas embarked from San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. He visited Alcatraz [...

Mahlen Arledge entered Japan on a landing craft after the end of the Pacific war. Though told that the troops did not...

Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines on Wake Island felt that they would be killed after capture. A World War 1 veteran...

While Kenneth Beard was stationed in Anchorage [Annotator's Note: Anchorage, Alaska] during World War 2, he and some of...

Buck Donaldson joined the Navy. He went to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp by train....

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