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

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

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

After being wounded, Richard Keller was evacuated to a field hospital [Annotator's Note: Keller was shot by a sniper...

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

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody Ridge...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

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

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

Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...

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...

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