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Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

Remi Kidder got the bed he always hoped he would have. [Annotator's Note: Kidder joined the Navy and served aboard the...

After joining the Marine reserves following World War 2, John Edward Campbell found work for a pharmaceutical company...

Gerry Jones discusses Eleanor Roosevelt's visit the South Pacific to assess the well being of the 1st Marine Division....

Willis Mills was attending Hayward High [Annotator’s Note: Hayward High School in Hayward, California] when he decided...

After the war ended, Thomas J. Smith, Junior and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine...

When DeMers was wounded [Annotators Note: on New Guinea] he was taken by the aid men to the regimental aid station....

Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Philip Schweitzer finds it hard to describe the feelings he experienced when he returned home and saw his mother and...

When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...

Prior to landing in New Guinea DeMers' unit was never given any jungle training. In Australia they were trained how to...

James Pringle was born in Sumter, South Carolina in November 1925. Life growing up was rough. He worked in grocery...

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