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When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

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

Harold Buell was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga (CV-3)] when she arrived at Midway following the...

Richard Higgins left Peleliu and went to Pavuvu and got off the ship. The next day a clerk told Higgins that he was...

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

Frank H. O'Leary and his platoon set up on the Tenaru River [Annotator's Notes: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. On the...

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

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

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

Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

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

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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