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Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

Richard Witaker volunteered for the United States Marine Corps because he was impressed by his friends who had done so...

Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...

Leo William Schmittgens thought he was treated well by the veteran Marines. He learned a lot from them and cherished...

Edward Riedl felt that if they did not kill, they would be killed themselves. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period...

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

Mack was born in his grandparents home. He lived there as an infant. When he got a little older his parents moved to a...

After Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Norman Sterrie...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Richard Lafleur was born in December 1926 in Bemidji, Minnesota. He was there until he was about 15, when his parents...

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