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Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

William Hall settled down after the war with the Marines but grew angry with the Marine Corps and quit. He did not like...

Clint Quirk was born in December 1923 in Butte, Montana and grew up in Anaconda, Montana. He had one sister. His father...

Archibald Rackerby joined the Marine Corps on 27 December 1941 and went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note:...

When James Bollich ran out of food, he started hunting. He was using World War 1 era ammunition. One day while hunting...

Dave Severance remembers some of the men, including Ira Hayes, John Bradley [Annotator's Note: John Henry Bradley, also...

Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...

Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

Archibald Rackerby volunteered to become a Marine Raider. He was a corporal and was in charge of classifying incoming...

James Bollich had no idea there was going to be a surrender. He knew the front lines kept falling back. When he was...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

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