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Before going to Guam, Robert Powers and the four Marine Raider battalions were put into one regular unit, the 4th...

Richard Yavenue was born in July 1925 in Harvey, Illinois. He had three sisters. His dad was a laborer and died when...

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

Edward Bale did not see any particular danger to his tanks in the second and third day of combat on Tarawa except for...

Before the Battle of the Coral Sea , Vejtasa's group got some information on the Japanese base at Rabaul and the...

Paul J. Frisco and his fellow crewmen were not intimidated by the threat of kamikazes because of their supreme...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]When...

James Weller picked the Army for enlistment because his father had served in World War I in a submarine. The submarine...

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'...

Warren Schmitt was sent to San Diego after he was drafted. He had six weeks of training. Some of the young men could...

Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...

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