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

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

Troy Edwards and his unit [Annotator's Note: Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 14 (CASU-14)] loaded their equipment on...

Martin Jacobson arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii soon after the Marshall Islands Campaign in 1944. He underwent more...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

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

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

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

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

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

Kenneth Killilea received his Marine Corps boot camp training at Parris Island. The moment he stepped off the bus upon...

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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