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Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

Robert Powers returned to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], which had been built up since he had last...

In 1944, Louis R. Lepore loaded his division [Annotator's Note: 5th Marine Division] into a ship and set sail. He...

Landing on Iwo Jima was not much different to Michael Mervosh and his men than some of their other amphibious landings...

Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

Leon Williamson believed the PBYs [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat] did a good job locating the...

Richard Witaker heard the Japanese propaganda from Tokyo Rose only once. That was when he had gone to the rear for food...

Robert Powers was called back to the service for Korea [Annotator's Note: the Korean War]. He had been honorably...

Louis R. Lepore received OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note:...

Michael Mervosh kept his binoculars in his pack the rest of the battle and he is thankful that he did. About a week...

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