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In March 1944, at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, Charles Chatterton was assigned to the USS LCI(L)-334 [Annotator'...

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

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

Upon returning to the United States in January 1946 from serving in the Merchant Marine, Dee Wayne White signed up to...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Ed Weber reported to Oceanside [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California]....

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

After the Japanese captured the field hospital where Joseph DeMott was being treated [Annotator's Note: he was wounded...

Leisey recalls having to do sponge ball therapy so he could build up the strength up in his hand. He has problems...

Clarence Strobel was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 188th Glider Infantry Regiment [Annotator’s Note:...

David Heath was stationed near Henderson Field [Annotator's Note: American airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands...

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