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Bernice Trotter had graduated high school and she was working for an insurance company. It was a one-woman office....

After the war ended, Thomas J. Smith, Junior and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine...

Charles Gubish could not remember much after being wounded [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 9th Marine...

They did not know the exact cause of his death since he was in halfway decent shape but initially they were told his...

William Lansford took part in the Long Patrol with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal. Most of the time he...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

Richard Higgins left Peleliu and went to Pavuvu and got off the ship. The next day a clerk told Higgins that he was...

When the grenade blew Quintana off the hill he does not remember if it knocked him unconscious but he does remember...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. witnessed the end of the fighting on Wake Island. It was chaotic. He [Annotator’s Note: then US...

James J. Hill enjoyed the swimming opportunities near his base when not in action. There were ideal conditions for it....

Bernice Trotter was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1924. She was in the fourth grade when they moved to Tulsa [...

When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...

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