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Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: after joining Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division on...

David Lansou was drafted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1943]. His parents were proud that their sons were...

The USS Honolulu (CL-48) went back to San Francisco and Ray Emory was heading for Melbourne, Australia three or four...

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

Assigned to the 1st Battalion[Annotator's Note: the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) was known as Merrill's...

Thomas Goss was stationed overseas on Guadalcanal [Annotator’s Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with his unit [...

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

Robert Taylor slept in a hammock with netting for mosquitoes. They had tents. The chaplain was like the Red Cross guru...

Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...

Roger A. Lewis went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] for training. Then they [Annotator'...

James Warren David believed that World War 2 was a patriotic war and people were very positive at the time. The war...

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