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The first glimpse Aaron Baumgarten had of Alaska was from the air, and he was impressed with its pristine vastness....

Calvin B. Moore was born in December 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was...

James Richard O'Rorke worked in the factory [Annotator's Note: in a steel mill in Ōsaka, Japan as a prisoner of war]...

Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were selected for a special...

Paul Fair moved on to Japan after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August 1945, officially...

Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

Nicanor Guzman was commissioned in the field after the Americans returned to the Philippines [Annotator's Note:...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

When Edward Chinnis reported aboard the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Dorchester (APB-46)], there was a third class...

Archibald Rackerby joined the Marine Corps on 27 December 1941 and went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note:...

Mack was attached to the Sixth Marine Division and sent to Guadalcanal for training. The Sixth Marine Division was...

Norman Hatch does not think of his experiences on Tarawa or Iwo Jima continuously. Rather, his experiences flood back...

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