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

Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] found that 11th Marine artillery was...

Deen was supposed to follow Bill Thompson [Annotators Note: during the invasion of Peleliu, 15 September 1944]. He was...

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

George Ingram describes the USS Niagara (AGP-1) as a converted yacht, and at the time he was assigned it was tied up...

The terrain was mostly jungle, and Edward Denzler remembers when the enemy ran a herd of wild elephants through the...

As far as the war was concerned, Arthur Davis claimed, working for the Bureau of Ships was his big adventure. It was a...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

Richard Greer saw a few Red Cross things and the show Bob Hope was in on Pavuvu. He only watched for a little while...

They walked to the factory with Japanese guards who would turn them over to the factory guards who were Manchurians and...

Arnold Addison saw combat on Tarawa, Saipan and Okinawa. His first encounter with the Japanese on Tarawa brought to his...

Jimmie Dyer returned to the United States in July 1946. He wanted to surprise his family. His uncle was the undertaker...

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