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As they moved into Germany, Chris Carawan remembered one battle when a man was shot and fell across the top of his...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell’s boat [Annotator's Note: McConnell served as an officer aboard patrol torpedo boats,...

Martin Carmody was on Guadalcanal for two or three days. The USS Enterprise (CV-6) had gone to the harbor at Espiritu...

Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

Walter Broll always had a haircut on Saturday. He would then go to confession since he was raised a Catholic. On one...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] fought on Guadalcanal. The battle of Bloody...

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