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Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

John DuBose signed on the SS Frenchtown as a messman. The ship was a T-2 tanker that was welded during construction and...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

Calvin Barrick thinks that Dick O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard H. O'Kane was the commanding...

Fred Wesighan has visited New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] but has never been to The National...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BARman, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

Earl Dean Browning holds up a book that he put together after he came home from the service [Annotator's Note: in...

After Bougainville, James Salerno and the Raiders went to New Zealand for some R...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Aboard his first ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32)], Lawrence Winnier was an officer's attendant. He...

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