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Charles T. Edwards was returning to his station from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] when he had...

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...

Joseph L. Harrison went back to a rear base at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: after participating in the retaking of...

Firman Balza believes that the Japanese lost the war that first day, but it took the United States three and a half...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

While Richard Greer and his fellow Marines were on Guadalcanal they were bombed almost constantly. They were hit at ten...

Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] found that 11th Marine artillery was...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Addison served in the USMC as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody...

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

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

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