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Chester Biernacki and the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] returned to the United States after the Pearl...

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

Russell Clay always served below deck during engagements with the enemy [Annotator's Note: he was a crewman aboard the...

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

On 11 July 1944, George Colburn and two others went into the Federal building in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston,...

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

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

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

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

Robert M. Solomon lost a girlfriend when he had to go participate in the maneuvers. He felt like the United States...

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

Lowell Rodrigue [Annotator's Note: after joining the crew of the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] headed north to Kiska in the...

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