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After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Gerry Jones trained with the United States Marines, joining the Scout and Sniper Company at Camp Elliott [Annotator's...

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

In the whole time James Buckley was on duty in the Pacific [Annotator's Note: as Deck Officer on the USS LST-1013], he...

Dale LeBlanc joined his unit [Annotator's Note: 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] on Guadalcanal in August...

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

The fighters rendezvoused with the SBDs [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD "Dauntless" dive bomber], then had to look after...

Daniel J. Lawler was wounded [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II; 15...

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

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

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

James L. Wheeler was born in Los Angeles, California, in February 1926. His father was a dairy man, and his mother was...

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