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When Anna McCalla Noren arrived on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] on 3 August 1945 with...

[Annotator's Note: Orville Bethard served in the Navy as an Electrician’s Mate aboard USS Midway (CVE-63), renamed USS...

Alfred A. Lingo was born in San, Jose, Costa Rica in March 1914. His father was a civilian engineer for United Fruit...

As the 6th Marines [Annotator's Note: 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] were going in [Annotator's Note: on...

Frank Campisano was told he would be invading an island and boarded a ship the Monday before Easter [Annotator's Note:...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Vernon Micheel met his future wife in June 1943 in Wildwood, New Jersey. They were married in October 1946. Micheel...

Harold Ward remembers that it was quiet after they secured from general quarters. Around three in the afternoon they...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

Within a few miles of Aparri [Annotator's Note: Aparri, Philippines], Leo V. Strausbaugh met up with Major Connolly [...

Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

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