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Bernice Trotter's brother died in April 1945. She was in Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was looking forward to seeing the enemy. The Marines were under the Navy. After training, they...

Frank H. O’Leary was born in June 1921 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts]. He had two older brothers....

Church recently made a trip back to Guam and laid a wreath down at the monument for the soldiers killed there during...

William Lansford was attached to the 27th Regiment [Annotator's Note: Regimental Headquarters, 27th Marine Regiment,...

Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...

When Richard Higgins returned to the United States he went to Quantico to drive a truck. He would drive civilians to...

Quintana did not mention events from the war too often; he talked about the war later in life. After he had his glass...

During the war there are individual units with individuals doing their jobs. On Tinian [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Frank H. O'Leary was leaving his friend's house when he learned about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Basilone [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone] and his guys went ashore in the third wave. William...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

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