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David Lansou was drafted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1943]. His parents were proud that their sons were...

John Ream remembers being in the convalescent hospital and seeing them bring out a flamethrower [Annotator's Note:...

Theodore Marolda received orders to board a transport bound for the Solomon Islands after it was discovered the...

Most of the combat they [Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson and his fellow Marines of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th...

After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...

Charles Wesley Borders' unit [Annotator's Note: 82nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 71st Tactical Reconnaissance...

William J. Twigger's training [Annotator's Note: on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944] was mainly...

They got into the base and they stayed and ate. The next morning, they put them on a C-47. There was 2 or 3 other ex-...

For the invasion of Peleliu, Charles Womack and the other Marines transferred off the ship into amtracs [Annotator's...

Mac Glenn Morris flew missions [Annotator's Note: as a dive bomber pilot in Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 236 (VMSB-236...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Ray Emory was born in Peoria, Illinois, one of eight children. His father lost his leg during the Great Depression,...

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