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Leo V. Strausbaugh was offered a chance to go home for 30 days, but he would have to forfeit all his points [Annotator'...

The USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84) joined with another carrier, the USS Kitkun Bay (AVG-71), headed for Leyte in the...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

Alfred Rodrigues identified Japanese aircraft by the large circles on their wings. It was Sunday and he had just sat...

Trinidad Ledesma volunteered to be a code clerk in headquarters where he thought he would be safer. He was shown a...

In early April [Annotator's Note: April 1943], second lieutenants were asked to volunteer for duty in the Pacific....

William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...

Edgar Cole went to communications school and finished at the head of his class. He was automatically assigned to...

From New Guinea, Jack Yusen and the other survivors [Annotator's Note: survivors of the 25 October 1944 sinking of the...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

It gives Quintana a good feeling to be able to say that he was a Marine Raider. He felt that the Raiders did not feel...

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