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Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

Robert Swan left the island [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] around 8 or 10 June [Annotator's Note: June 1942]. Even...

Samuel Ukrop's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] was not...

When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit's [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] first...

Robert Prince was born in Seattle, Washington in November 1919. He was the second of four boys. All of them served in...

While waiting for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Hutchins (DD-476)] to be commissioned, Mark Brannon learned that he...

Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...

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