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Charles Brooks saw purple flak on his first combat mission off the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded above the city on...

During and after the Battle of Saipan, Ira Schilling and his fellow Marines willingly accepted enemy troops who...

Warren J. Haslauer took one trip to where the Baa Baa Black Sheep [Annotator's Note: "Baa Baa Black Sheep", later "...

Robert Brant and his ship made it to Kyushu, Japan after hitting a typhoon in the Pacific. Brant recalled having ill...

Going into the Pacific took 19 days, zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver], in a three-ship...

After the attack on 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Cass...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

Salvatore Famularo remembers it was an all-out war when he went. His most memorable moment was getting out of Iwo Jima...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

They had also attacked the smaller fields in the area [Annotator's Note: the Japanese in the Philippines in December...

Kenneth E. Stevens was born in July 1924 in Todd County [Annotator's Note: in Long Prairie, Minnesota]. He attended...

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