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One of Angus Francis Mestayer's friends was lonesome and he wanted to go home. One guy on the rifle range climbed the...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard USS LST-781] moved around the South...

Salvatore Famularo was at the Amphitheater [Annotator’s Note: a terrain feature on Iwo Jima, Japan] which was a big...

Robert Boeke and his classmates talked about the war in social studies class. He sang in the boys' choir. They started...

Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] is small and had no difficulty in moving around in the...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant graduated high school in 1935 in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: Baton Rouge, Louisiana]....

Adolph Edward Asher went to France to fight at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

Rudolph C. Miller loved the Marines aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Fond du Lac (APA-166)]. They were very...

Moses Hogan's basic training was in Norfolk, Virginia, and he shipped out from San Diego, California. He was assigned...

Theodore Wessen served on a modern minesweeper [Annotator's Note: USS Pirate (AM-275)] which was fitted with gear to...

David Flynn was born in November 1919 in Collegeville, Minnesota, where his father was the athletic director at St....

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