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Jack Houston and a buddy who had been cut by a bayonet stayed in their hole for a while. Houston had a buddy named Joe...

James Shelton Scales did not think about his family much, except that he missed his wife and daughter. His wife wrote...

Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Bourgeois served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft with Marine...

When the morning came, someone told Jack Houston that he 22nd [Annotator's Note: 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine...

Adolph Wilson was a platoon sergeant on Iwo Jima but acted as a lieutenant after the officers were wounded or killed....

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

Adolph Wilson thinks The National WWII Museum is great. It shows appreciation for the veterans who served in the war....

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

When Jack Houston was evacuated [Annotator's Note: from Okinawa] he was taken first to Saipan then to Guam. While they...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

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