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[Annotator's Note: Archibald Rackerby was wounded by friendly fire while training on Guadalcanal on 9 March 1944.]...

Harold Buell returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: after flying with the "Cactus Airforce" off Henderson Field on...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

Russell Clay always served below deck during engagements with the enemy [Annotator's Note: he was a crewman aboard the...

On 11 July 1944, George Colburn and two others went into the Federal building in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston,...

To Edmund Durocher, New Britain was just as bad as Guadalcanal. They went to New Guinea before they landed on New...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Kenneth Killilea received his Marine Corps boot camp training at Parris Island. The moment he stepped off the bus upon...

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

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