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When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was guarding the Florida Keys as a member of the 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

Fred Bergeron was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in January 1923. Custom dictated that the mother would be taken care of...

William Lutz was in the 77th Infantry Division. He did not know where they would be sent. They went to Oahu [Annotator’...

Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

The most memorable situation for Al Currier was being trapped on a mountain with no one knowing where they were [...

Bill Toledo was sent from Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands with Headquarters Company, 3rd...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

Recalling his experiences on Cape Gloucester, Joe Clapper said the combat portion was very light. It was the easiest...

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