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Claude Shannahan got out of the Marine Corps and returned to Mount Clemens, Michigan. His father owned a bar and...

The first weapon William J. Twigger had when he entered the Marine Corps was the Springfield rifle [Annotator's Note: ....

James Billingsley was on patrol one night in Japan. He went into a train station and there was nothing there, but kids...

Peter Gallo never got hit, but while he was on Leyte, he contracted malaria. He ran a high fever and was throwing up,...

Paul Fair moved on to Japan after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August 1945, officially...

Thomas Joseph Lemme was born in January 1926 in Albany [Annotator's Note: Albany, New York]. He had two older brothers...

Robert S. Gibbs was shipped to Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines, aboard the USS Boston (CA-69)] in October...

After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...

Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese, was forced to work in the Mitsubishi mine number 11 [Annotator’s Note: in...

Tyler took primary and basic training at Randolph Field then advanced training at Kelley Field [Annotator's Note: San...

Louis R. Lepore received OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note:...

Lionel Lopez did not lose any POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. They got paid for their work on the...

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