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Richard O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard H. "Dick" O'Kane] gave William Leibold a nice 35mm...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

Cass Phillips did his Navy training in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California.]. He was given a test for...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

Adolph Wilson was a platoon sergeant on Iwo Jima but acted as a lieutenant after the officers were wounded or killed....

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They...

Edmond Guidry was 900 miles south of Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] when a...

Clint Quirk was born in December 1923 in Butte, Montana and grew up in Anaconda, Montana. He had one sister. His father...

Looking back, 65 years after the event, James Muri believes that the Battle of Midway had to be a turning point in the...

After high school, Harold Whitaker was bumming around and getting trouble until his mother and a family friend...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Hershel Hibbard was born in Rose Hill, Kansas in September 1925. His mother worked as a switchboard operator and his...

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