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Between graduating from college and beginning the program at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,...

In February 1945, Floyd Fogg was among the Marines of the 23rd Marines, 4th Division [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine...

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...

Harry Robert Momi was born in October 1924 in Stockton, California with one older sister. He was raised by his parents...

Clarence Becker was born in Rochester, New York one week after World War 1 ended, 18 November 1918. He was the fifth of...

When Hersey Goodwin was discharged, it was after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

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

If Jacklyn Lucas's father had been alive, he would not have allowed him to go off to the service because he could...

When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

Norman Elliott and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Pasadena (CL-65)] saw some action while in the Pacific. They had...

The Japanese had done a real job of planting all kinds of explosives [Annotator's Note: on Peleliu]. Arthur Jackson...

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