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After one patrol during which he was carrying a heavy BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle], Richard...

Claude Shannahan joined the 3rd Marines [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division]. He went with the...

Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS Potomac (AG-25) in Washington D.C. while he served with the Navy. He was visiting...

Harold C. Cook entered the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

James Bollich thinks there were radios in other camps [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camps], but not his. He got...

When Mervin Jensen received his draft notice, he thought everyone else had to go so he would to. He went to Fort...

Paul J. Murphy got into the water which was covered with oil and black tar [Annotator’s Note: he had just abandoned the...

William Lansford served as a machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Company E, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on...

Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

Irwin Schneider arrived at Hollandia just after the landings there. There was no opposition to the assault. He had not...

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