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Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

When Frank Pryor left Hawaii, he was sent to Japan instead of the mainland [Annotator's Note: the United States...

Janice Evenson was born in August 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. They had to walk a mile and a half to a country...

Lester Hecht and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Marine Aircraft Group 32 (MAG-32)] trained pilots in Honolulu [Annotator...

Floyd Fogg went to Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California for basic training, From there he sailed through rough seas...

[Annotators Note: Giles Bacon enlisted in the USMC in January 1939. He was assigned as a brig guard at Pearl Harbor and...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

Joseph Burrell was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1922. His family moved to Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...

The war taught Frank Pryor obedience, discipline, and how to take care of himself. He thought it was advantageous for...

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