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Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

On his first tour, Feightner was officially credited with 4 kills but he knows he shot down 12. Feightner shot down 31...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Gerry Jones feels that the Japanese soldiers were very tough men. He was able to track Japanese soldiers easily by the...

James Bollich was on one of the first ships to take prisoners from the Philippines. The Japanese put 2,000 men into a...

The first board Tyler went before was the Roberts Commission. He also went before army and navy boards. The boards were...

Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...

Jacques Brewster Smith remembers the island of Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] being all jungle and...

Alvin von Frisch was sent to Camp Croft [Annotator's Note: in Spartanburg, South Carolina; now Croft State Park] for...

In July 1943, Charles A. Waller joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp. Waller was made a squad leader in...

Roger Shaw arrived in Bahia, Brazil aboard the SS George Gayle. He had met some associates previously in Bahia, but he...

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