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Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

The South [Annotator's Note: the Southern states in the United States] was poor and the Northern states were better off...

After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...

Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

Richard Keller took part in the Louisiana Maneuvers [Annotator's Note: a series of major Army exercises held in 1941 in...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...

Jack D. Owen was born in Lufkin, Texas in 1926. He had a twin sister and an older brother. Owen’s father struggled...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr. believes it is important for the younger generation to know more about World War 2. He...

Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

Clayton Fisher volunteered to fly an SB2A Brewster [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer scout bomber] and lead...

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