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Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

In Iceland, Keith Renstrom took and passed the test for corporal. When he got back to San Diego, he took the test for...

When Maynard David went home for the first time his wife kept it to herself. She wanted to have time alone with him...

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: that Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

In late 1943, Charles A. Waller boarded a ship from San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] with 800 other...

Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

Donald H. "Don" Bee had an explosive, right-hand man named Patterson [Annotator's Note: no given name provided]. Bee...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

Before the 5th Marine Division landed on Iwo Jima, Norman Hatch assigned all of the men in his camera outfit to various...

Robert Swan and three other guys in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44)] rented a house. Each...

Harold Bergbower remembers the freedom to eat as much as he wanted after he was freed from the Japanese POW [Annotator'...

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