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Ralph Weymouth graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1938. He was 12 years and old living in northwest Seattle in 1929...

Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945 at Iwo Jima, Japan], Robert Erskine...

Frank Pomroy and his fellow Marines walked down to the sandspit at the mouth of the Tenaru River and stared at the dead...

Adolph Wilson fought through some of the worse jungles on Bougainville. It had everything imaginable. It rained every...

Bruce McCormick returned to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County,...

Charles Gubish did not know much about what was going on with the war in the Pacific. Marine Corps boot camp was tough...

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

After the war ended, Ernest Cowell was sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: with the 20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry...

William Lutz left his unit when there was no shooting. It was as if the war had stopped. He just kept walking. The...

William Pierce returned to San Francisco in March 1946. He was discharged in April 1946. He was shipped back to New...

Arthur L. Eads met his wife not long after he returned home from World War 2. He married her in February 1946. He...

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