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George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

James had his back to the explosion when it occurred. 1 shell that went all the way through the armor and came near the...

Asked how he got a Japanese flag, Holly Rees said that nearly every enemy soldier carried one folded up on top of the...

When Peter Newberg got back to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], he was sent to a Marine training...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

The most horrible of Edward Lee Allesandro's experiences were when men died while he was holding them. The ship also...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

Charles Graves Chauncey's aircraft was named "Goin' Jessie" with a mean-looking rabbit for the nose art. He recalled...

One of the new pilots from Vejtasa's group got lost during the battle. He tried to make it to Guadalcanal but couldn't...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

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