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Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines on Wake Island felt that they would be killed after capture. A World War 1 veteran...

In early September 1944, James Stewart Rosenbaum shipped out for the Pacific from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

Mahlen Arledge entered Japan on a landing craft after the end of the Pacific war. Though told that the troops did not...

Richard Bennett recalled a patrol near Palau when PBYs [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat] picked...

When Crain was in the armada heading towards the beaches [Annotator's Note: during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943],...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...

After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Benjamin Albert Glusing became a second lieutenant and was given orders...

In preparation for hitting the beaches, Joe Clapper said a soldier's main concern is that he has enough ammunition. He...

After returning to his carrier, Norman Kleiss got a cup of coffee and prepared for his next flight. About that time a...

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

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