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Black hoods were placed on the heads of William Leibold and the others [Annotator's Note: the other survivors of the...

Frank Kern served as a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines [Annotator's Note: 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd...

Edward Bruce Jennings remembers the bombing was heavy and the Japanese backed off. On Mindoro [Annotator’s Note:...

Joseph LaNier was 15 years old and working in a nightclub when an incident happened in Columbus [Annotator’s Note:...

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

Mahlen Arledge grew up as a result of World War 2. He understood what life meant. When he went into the service, he...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew's first campaign was on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines]. He had turned 21 while on a...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody Ridge...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], F. Lincoln Grahlfs received orders to tow away the USS Hugh W. Hadley...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines laughed at the Japanese bombing the lagoon. Nothing was being accomplished while the...

Lionel Lopez met his wife on his first leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time]. They...

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