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When Richard Bennett went for his military service physical, he was given his choice between the Army, the Navy and the...

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

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

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

Hershel Hibbard was born in Rose Hill, Kansas in September 1925. His mother worked as a switchboard operator and his...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

Fiske Hanley talks about the close calls he experienced during his first six missions over the Japanese home islands....

Victor K. Carman wanted to become an electronics engineer. While he was at the Great Lakes Naval Base [Annotator's Note...

John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

For the first battle of the Matanikau, James Smith and the Raiders were going to go up the river and 1st Battalion, 7th...

Daniel Morisak left Kiriwina [Annotator's Note: Kiriwina Island in the Trobriand Island Group of Papua New Guinea]...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine] was assigned to Insular Patrol [Annotator's Note: with the Guam...

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