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Sumner Whitten is proud to have survived the Battle of Midway. A few years ago he was contacted about Battle of Midway...

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

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

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

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

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

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

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

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

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

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

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