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When Richard Cole returned to the United States he was stationed at an aircraft manufacturing plant. As the planes...

The morning that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

William Ward Crawford was born in 1914 in Akron, Ohio. He was aware of the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company were told that the enemy resistance on the island of Tarawa would...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

Wim de Jonge arrived at the beginning of the railroad through Thailand which was to be completed in Burma. It was...

At the time of Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. 's enlistment [Annotator's Note: in the United States Marine Corps in December...

Charles Struble was born in June 1924 in Benton, Illinois. He grew up there with one brother and one sister. He also...

When Robert Rosendahl and his fellow survivors were told to destroy their weapons they threw them all out into the bay...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Edmund Durocher spent three months on Pavuvu. The Marine brass cut the division [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine...

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