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The first weapon William J. Twigger had when he entered the Marine Corps was the Springfield rifle [Annotator's Note: ....

James Paul Lynch went out to sea as officer of the deck the first time [Annotator's Note: on the USS Snook (SS-279) on...

Robert Spint was discharged at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin [Annotator's Note: now Fort McCoy in Monroe County, Wisconsin]. He...

Sherwin Callander's parents gave their permission for their 19 year old son to enlist. He took a bus to San Diego,...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were first attacked by Japanese suicide aircraft in the Lingayen...

Wilbur Rogers' discharge was based on the convenience of the government and was affected at New Orleans, Louisiana on...

After boot camp, Donald Witmer was designated for torpedo school, which was not among his choices for assignment. In...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Lyle Mitchell met his wife while he was in school at RIT [Annotator’s Note: Rochester Institute of Technology in...

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

William Burkett thinks the war crimes trials [Annotator’s Note: Tokyo War Crimes Trials] were the most memorable. The...

When Joseph Orlando arrived at Saipan, part of his job was to bury the Marines that had been killed. Duties varied and...

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