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When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Surviving a Storm

Edmond Guidry was in charge of the movie projectors [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)]. They got a pint...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

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

Carrol Smith landed during the invasion of Angaur Island in the Palau island group [Annotator’s Note: the invasion...

Peter "Pete" Behr's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the landing at Leyte [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Malcolm Ernest was with about 100 American prisoners in Manchuria [Annotator's Note: Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria;...

Mahlen Arledge arrived at home from his overseas service without fanfare or even a greeting. He was glad to get back to...

Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...

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