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Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

While talking with the man, Jones's copilot showed up. The men felt better seeing each other.The young man had a hand...

Thatcher watched and was actually in a few of the B-25's that were practicing taking off from a short runway. It gave...

William Winter recognized during his OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] class how important education was...

According to Peter Paret, the great Prussian philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz tried to understand war with a...

Within a day of arriving at the submarine base James Allen was given orders to report to the USS Wahoo (SS-238). He...

Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

When Benjamin Hagans was on the ship coming back, his teeth started to settle. He put on 17 pounds in three weeks. He...

Jimmie Dyer went through infantry training at Camp Pendleton, California. When he landed at Guadalcanal, where the 6th...

Ray Eshelman was born in Dayton, Ohio, in July 1925. He grew up there and attended school. He graduated [Annotator's...

On the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] only had black sand in the southern part of the island. Iwo Jima means...

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