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

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

Alfred Rodrigues reported aboard the Washington [Annotator's Note: USS Washington (BB-56)] as a five inch [Annotator's...

Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

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

[Annotator's Note: Gabriel Kinney served in the Army as a BAR man and fought with the 25th Infantry Division on...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

Edmund Durocher landed on Guadalcanal weighing 156 pounds and left weighing 126. He had no socks because they had...

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

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Captain Murray [Annotators Note: Captain Stuart S. Murray] was the captain on the USS Missouri. Starnes and Murray got...

Frank Pomroy had decided to go on a third invasion regardless of whether or not he would be sent home. The Marines drew...

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