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Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Raymond Gimbut joined the crew of the Selfridge [Annotator's Note: USS Selfridge (DD-357)]. He thought it was a good...

Henry Ratcliff was born in January 1923 in Columbia, Louisiana. He had five brothers. He grew up in the area of...

Dupuy recalls a certain sense of invincibility that stayed with him. He knew death was around every corner but he kept...

On 7 December 1941, Jack Holder was on duty at Ford Island, [Annotator’s Note: Ford Island, Hawaii]. His unit was in a...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was a payroll clerk [Annotator's Note: in the 2nd Marine Division]. Everyone was trained in...

Garland Miller Gallaspy was born in Ottawa, Oklahoma in November 1922. His family moved all over the Southeast while he...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

In early August 1945, the 321st Bombardment Squad, 90th bombardment group [Annotator’s Note: 321st Bombardment Squadron...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

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