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Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]...

Ralph C. Franklin became an adjutant in Division Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Marine Division]....

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was at a movie when he was told the Japanese surrendered. His area did not believe the news....

The replacement center was just outside of Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines], and once he was...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...

In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944] Allen Tillery went to Linda Vista where he boarded the USS Manila Bay...

Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet] did not receive...

Buck Donaldson was born in August 1925 in Grant Parish, Louisiana. He was the fifth child. His father was a doctor and...

John Stiles boarded the USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145). It was a troop ship and it was an interesting experience....

They had to break the monotony. They would see someone get beat and they would laugh about the way he hollered or the...

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