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Frank Campisano's trip to the Pacific was uneventful. He joined the 2nd Marine Division on Saipan [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

Albert G. Sutcliffe's gunnery sergeant Annotator's Note: in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Roger A. Lewis left Wallis Island [Annotator's Note: Wallis and Futuna] and returned first to American Samoa, and then...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

Frank Campisano was told he would be invading an island and boarded a ship the Monday before Easter [Annotator's Note:...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]When they...

Richard Witaker landed on Red Beach 2 on Easter Sunday, April Fool's day of 1945 [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945]. The...

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