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Gerald West didn't think often of the Raiders after the war. In recent years the numerous reunions and meetings West...

Adolph Wilson arrived in San Diego for Marine training after three days of travel on a train from New Orleans. The men...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

Hunt [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Captain George P. Hunt] saw Wilfred Hanson's [Annotator's Note: with Company K...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

Deen was hit on the top of Wana Ridge [Annotators Note: Okinawa, April 1945]. He was hit by a Japanese knee mortar....

Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...

Adolph Wilson and his battalion of the Marine Paratroopers arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia. They had been preceded by...

Walter Knapps was a Marine Corps security guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning...

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

In July 1943, Charles A. Waller joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp. Waller was made a squad leader in...

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

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