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David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

Joseph Brannan was in a crew on PT-305 that was composed of two officers and from 12 to 14 enlisted men. The enlisted...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

It was a beautiful day with calm seas when John Wicklund and the 96th Infantry Division [Annotator's Note: at the time...

Thomas Francis Schicker went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] and did maneuvers offshore...

Claude Taylor married his wife after graduating LSU [Annotator's Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,...

David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

Hersey Goodwin was born in January 1925 in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana in the town of Jones. He lived on a farm. He...

Merrill was returning from a search mission just as the Doolittle Raiders were taking off from the Hornet [Annotator's...

Jack Yusen grew up in Queens, New York where he lived with his parents, brother and grandmother and was living there...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

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