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Donald Draxler was born in Glenwood City, Wisconsin in July 1923. His home town was near the "Twin Cities" [Annotator’s...

Soon after being drafted into the Army, Richard Jaccarino was sent to Camp Upton at the end of Long Island, New York...

Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...

Richard Lafleur was not assigned to a unit after training. He knew he was going to be in the 1st Cavalry Division....

When Bill Toledo was home with his grandparents, he did not want to go to school. The school official forced him to go...

Salvatore Famularo went to Maui in the Hawaiian islands. He went into the 4th Marine Division [Annotator's Note:...

After boot camp, Robert Powers joined a rifle company at Camp Elliot, then volunteered for a Marine Raider unit. He...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

On the evening of 3 February 1945, Thomas Crosby had gone to get hot water for his room monitor to drink a cup of hot...

Archibald Boyd Rackerby was born in July 1920 in Washington, D.C. because his mother and her family were Washingtonians...

After Guadalcanal, James Gulotta went to Bougainville. They did a lot of heavy fighting on Bougainville. The Marines...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] felt that capturing combat on film was very...

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