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Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Benjamin Albert Glusing became a second lieutenant and was given orders...

Claude Shannahan joined the Raiders because he wasn't tall enough to be a paratrooper and because he liked the name. He...

William Beaman thinks young people should be taught the history of World War 2, and believes it is important that there...

Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller] took part in the...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

James Gulotta landed in the Philippines on Leyte on the Ormoc Peninsula. This is where he did most of his fighting....

Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January to 3 February 1944] D-Day [Annotator's Note: military...

Charles Martin was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator’s Note: in Oceanside, California] when they formed the 1st Amphibious...

Charles Dragich saw burials every day [Annotator’s Note: while a prisoner of war of the Japanese at Camp O’Donnell in...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Floyd Fogg was born in April 1926 in Lacombe, Louisiana. When he was three years old, his family moved to Slidell,...

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