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Louis Burg was born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1921. He served with the 4th Marine Division during World War 2 in...

Peter "Pete" Behr [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division]...

Frank Savage completed amphibious training at Hampton Roads, Virginia. To pass the test, the soldiers had to get ashore...

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was at a movie when he was told the Japanese surrendered. His area did not believe the news....

Anthony Costa enjoyed it [Annotator's Note: his prewar service in the United States Marine Corps] because he was able...

When William Lansford and the other members of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion were in New Zealand he was walking down...

William Cart completed V-7 [Annotator’s Note: V-7 US Navy College Training Program, 1940 to 1945] school and chose the...

Edward Bruce Jennings contracted malaria [Annotator's Note: disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Blanchard was still feeling the effects of the smoke inhalation when he was in Honolulu. He dealt with this injury for...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

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