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The Battle of the Driniumor River ended in August of 1944 after the Japanese 18th Army had been completely decimated....

In 1944, Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior trained in maneuvers, amphibious invasion training, and other physical...

Charles Gubish could not remember much after being wounded [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 9th Marine...

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

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker went to India as a photo reconnaissance pilot.] India was damp and humid, but very...

K.D. Jones was Karr's pointer on the gun mount. Jones and Karr were able to get down and crawl out onto the deck. They...

William H. Greason was born in September 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia. The middle child of five, Greason credits his...

Rufus Harris signed up for Navy ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] because his dad anticipated the...

Thomas Francis Schicker had his 19th birthday at Ulithi. He became friends with Leo Schmidtkin [Annotator's Note:...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

Nick Cristiano has no idea where his Japanese prison guards went when the war ended. A whole new crew came in. The new...

When DeMers was wounded [Annotators Note: on New Guinea] he was taken by the aid men to the regimental aid station....

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