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[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe and men from his outfit, a detachment of the US Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battlion, were...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

Henry Ratcliff joined the Army Air Forces and went many places including California where it rained a lot. Eating in...

On the troop ship out of Pearl Harbor, Holly Rees said there was little to do, and the soldiers played cards and got...

After Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to November 1944,...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was on USS LST-124 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank] until just before the end of the war...

It took Blanchard quite a while to get topside. There was a lot of smoke. The men had to move to get away from it all....

Louis Block knew they were going overseas, but they did not know where. The plane before them went to Guam. When they...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was assigned...

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Paul Ignatius was born in Glendale, California in November 1920. He is very proud of his hometown because many famous...

Marvin Tyson went to college under the G.I. Bill at New York University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York]. He...

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