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When the battle initially started, Frank Pomroy was positioned with a water-cooled machine gun [Annotator's note: .30...

Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Charles Womack remembers the terrain on New Guinea being thick jungles with vines growing wildly throughout and near...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. was born in January 1927. His home was in the Atchafalaya Basin [Annotator's Note: also...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a rifleman and radio operator in Company B, 1st Marine Raider...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

Thomas Tizzard was assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) and sent to Nouméa, New Caledonia. A person had told him the...

Abraham Rosenzweig was born in Chicago, Illinois in January 1924 and grew up there. He had three sisters named Shirley...

Fred Bronfin was called to report to his local draft board to register. His blood pressure was high when he went in and...

John Mikus, Jr. took a ship zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] across [Annotator's Note:...

Robert L. Donovan was drafted. He wanted to enlist in the Air Force. He had hay fever so they did not let him enlist....

To William Lansford, all campaigns had goofy things happen. The first time he went out by himself he had been warned of...

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