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During and after the Battle of Saipan, Ira Schilling and his fellow Marines willingly accepted enemy troops who...

David Lehigh was told he would be deploying overseas, but was not told where he would be going. He departed from Mather...

Archibald Rackerby was assigned to the 3rd Marine Raider Battalion. Colonel Liversedge [Annotator's Note: later US...

Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands] was taken on 1 November [Annotator's Note: 1...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior was assigned to the USS General G.O. Squier (AP-130) out of San Francisco [Annotator's...

Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

Warren Nolan had an older brother who was kind of the pioneer of the family. The family is Catholic, so the brother...

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] got evacuated after...

Richard Lamey Nesossis and his flight crew [Annotator's Note: 5th Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force] fly from Hawaii to...

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

While the 35th Infantry [Annotator's Note: 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division] waited on Guadalcanal [...

When Theodore Pavlovich was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands], it was wet and rough. For...

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