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Giles Bacon was with the Marine Raiders [Annotators Note: 2nd Marine Raider Battalion] for six months. He had enough of...

Crump was lucky making the transition from military to civilian life. He had worked in the shipyards prior to military...

George Colburn went to China with the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: in September 1945]....

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was known as "Chub" through high school. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in March 1926. His...

Jack Pierce had a good job offer on the West Coast. He tried to get discharged there, but they would not do it. He...

John Cassidy recalled a regular day in his division included an early rise, a shower, breakfast and "quarters" which...

Ben Kuroki was amazed that he only saw one Japanese Zero [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, also known...

After he graduated from school in 1941, Frank M. Heuer Sr. went to work for Higgins Industries [Annotator’s Note: in...

William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

John Wesley Tatum left Fiji [Annotator's Note: Fiji, Oceania] to go to Goodenough Island [Annotator's Note: Goodenough...

After the war, Wiley did meet the island chief's grandson and granddaughter. The relatives of the chief came to the US...

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