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Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

Leon Griffith was born in Magee, Mississippi but raised in Monticello [Annotator's Note: Monticello, Mississippi] on a...

Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Oran Harris remembers that he served with people from all over United States. The Soutern boys didn't like the way the...

Randolph Daniel landed on Wake Island after the bombs dropped on Japan in August [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

One of the new pilots from Vejtasa's group got lost during the battle. He tried to make it to Guadalcanal but couldn't...

Leo Denault remembers there was a little town next to them with a geisha district [Annotator’s Note: geisha district,...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom says that serving in the war was the greatest part of his life. He has a lot of pictures and...

Joseph Townsend started to lose his teeth in 1955. The dentist told him that all his teeth were cracked at the ridge....

James had his back to the explosion when it occurred. 1 shell that went all the way through the armor and came near the...

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