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Eugene Tarrant has certain memories from the war that have stuck with him to this day. One night off of Guadalcanal,...

[Annotator's Note: Ralph Weymouth served in the Navy as a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 3 (VS-3) flying from...

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

The train was moving fast. The train brought them to California. They brought the companies up to full strength. His...

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

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

After his tour on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, James Franklin Young and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

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

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Pendleton served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gunner in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

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...

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