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Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 3rd Amphibious Corps] returned to the United Stated...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was...

On Pavuvu Island [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu Island, Solomon Islands], a personnel officer told Wilfred Hanson [Annotator...

Steve McMurray related that by the time an attacking unit reached its objective on the heights of Iwo Jima, its force...

On the 17th of June [Annotator's Note: 17 June 1945 on Okinawa] they moved back off of Kunishi Ridge. A colonel was...

The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotators Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Joe Morris returned home after being in Peking, China for some weeks. He boarded an aircraft that flew him to San Diego...

Following the Japanese surrender, Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] made an American...

World War 2 changed Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior's life by making him aware of America's significance in this...

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