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Gerry Jones had joined the Marine Scout and Sniper Company, which was different than the Marine Raiders as he explains...

Charles Nathan Lane considers himself extremely fortunate and thinks that he had a guardian angel with him when he was...

Claude Shannahan joined the Raiders because he wasn't tall enough to be a paratrooper and because he liked the name. He...

Mahlen Arledge left Peleliu after the battle for the island was won. His company [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd...

En route to his battle station, Robert Kinzler had a clear view of Pearl Harbor, which was a mass of black smoke, with...

[Annotator's Note: Melvin C. Whitman was on Peleliu, Palau with Battery L, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st...

Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was slightly...

Emil Kesselman’s discharge date was set for August 1950 and he went home to New York, and to work at Brillo [Annotator’...

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

When they arrived at Pearl Harobr, Air Group 6 needed one more run before they rotated home. During the trip to Truk...

Howard Robert Charles [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the other prisoners soon found their clothes were...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Burrell received his orders to basic training on 22 December 1942]. Joseph Burrell had his...

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