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The 3rd Marine Division was loaded up and brought to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan on 22 February 1945...

James Goodrich and his buddy dug a foxhole. His buddy put a big branch across the top of the hole. Later that night...

James "Jim" Marshall and his unit [Annotator's Note: 499th Bombardment Group, 73rd Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force]...

After Leyte, Harper Gruber's vessel [Annotator's Note: USS YMS-339] took part in the second invasion [Annotator's Note...

Warren Huggins left San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and headed for Manila [Annotator’s Note...

Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...

George Colburn only heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor]. He was just a Private and...

Frank Campisano's trip to the Pacific was uneventful. He joined the 2nd Marine Division on Saipan [Annotator's Note:...

When the Hollandia [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hollandia, New Guinea; Operation Reckless, 22 April to 6 June 1944]...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

After Orville Bethard went aboard ship [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] they went to Australia where...

Anna McCalla Noren wrote to her boyfriend, Carl Noren, to occupy time. She had met him when she first arrived at Fort...

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