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[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the USMC as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] Edson [...

Arriving at Corpus Christi, Texas, John Reeder underwent "primary training," which was made difficult by some of the...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Ben Steele was told the war was over by a Japanese officer. At first, the Americans did not believe him, but American B...

John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....

George Joseph Bertucci felt the war improved him because he furthered his education afterwards. He had ambition to do...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

Kenneth Killilea boarded a hospital ship offshore of Iwo Jima after being wounded in action. The largest pieces of...

When Ed Weber first got overseas, the war was not going well. In August 1942 when the Marines took Guadalcanal [...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

After being discharged from the army after the war, Abraham Sacks returned home and reunited with his parents after...

Before the Marines landed on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) bombarded the...

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