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To Edmund Durocher, New Britain was just as bad as Guadalcanal. They went to New Guinea before they landed on New...

After Bougainville, James Salerno and the Raiders went to New Zealand for some R...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody Ridge...

C. Charles Collie was at Okinawa which was the last big campaign of the war. It lasted longer than any of the other...

The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Russell Clay always served below deck during engagements with the enemy [Annotator's Note: he was a crewman aboard the...

Richard Higgins left Peleliu and went to Pavuvu and got off the ship. The next day a clerk told Higgins that he was...

Chester Biernacki and the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] returned to the United States after the Pearl...

Gerald West didn't think often of the Raiders after the war. In recent years the numerous reunions and meetings West...

While Ralph Morse was in the hospital recovering from malaria, he was told he would not be going back to the Pacific [...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

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