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Sidney Philips remembers the Marines bringing the amphibious tank up the creek from the beach. It was just sitting...

Firman Balza believes that the Japanese lost the war that first day, but it took the United States three and a half...

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

Robert Riddle was assigned to the Merchant Marine ship SS Typhoon, transporting supplies and soldiers throughout the...

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

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

Joseph L. Harrison went back to a rear base at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: after participating in the retaking of...

Sumner Whitten is proud to have survived the Battle of Midway. A few years ago he was contacted about Battle of Midway...

While Richard Greer and his fellow Marines were on Guadalcanal they were bombed almost constantly. They were hit at ten...

After being wounded, Richard Keller was evacuated to a field hospital [Annotator's Note: Keller was shot by a sniper...

Archibald Rackerby stayed in the Marine Corps after the war ended. He was not 100 percent after his injury. [Annotator'...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

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