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Before going to Guam, Robert Powers and the four Marine Raider battalions were put into one regular unit, the 4th...

William J. Twigger [Annotator's Note: and Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] came...

Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...

All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

John Burr joined the Naval ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] in college. He was always interested...

Wiley noted that there were no other survivors of his plane. His wingman returned to the Enterprise [Annotator's Note:...

Albert G. Sutcliffe was sent to Pearl Harbor's [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] in preparation for going to the...

James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

During the war, Aaron Baumgarten worried less about meeting up with the Japanese than he was of coming to a bad end...

William Currier's first seagoing engagement was aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) as part of a task group that escorted...

Connick's boat [Annotator's Note: an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel)] held roughly thirty-six men. Each boat...

Jack D. Owen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he participated in the commissioning of the USS Colusa...

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