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The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

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

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...

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

Paul J. Frisco served aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) during the ship's entire wartime cruise. The ship was the fourth...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

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

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

Before the war, Sterling Mace played baseball and had aspirations to pitch. He pitched for the Philip Morris cigarette...

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

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

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