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Gene Alair was assigned to a Transport Division Staff, CTD8, as a flag secretary and navigator aboard the USS Astoria (...

Robert Riddle went to San Pedro, California for boot camp. He was excited to see the ocean for the first time, and...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

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...

When James Wilson left Australia, they [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Deen was supposed to follow Bill Thompson [Annotators Note: during the invasion of Peleliu, 15 September 1944]. He was...

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

J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...

Richard Witaker volunteered for the United States Marine Corps because he was impressed by his friends who had done so...

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...

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