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James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....

The barracks Charles Womack and the other Marines stayed in when they were on Pavuvu the first time were still there...

Dave Severance remembers some of the men, including Ira Hayes, John Bradley [Annotator's Note: John Henry Bradley, also...

The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...

After Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands], Henry James...

Warren J. Haslauer [Annotator's Note: with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] was...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Richard Keller grew up in Hahnville, Louisiana. He started first grade in 1924 and graduated in 1935. From there,...

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer returned home on 1 September 1946, after one year in Japan. He learned some of the Japanese...

Ruffin Walker Dawson [Annotator's Note: with the 51st Defense Battalion] found out he was going overseas in February...

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