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James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

After Bougainville, James Salerno and the Raiders went to New Zealand for some R...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Benjamin Carson and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion left San Diego and headed to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS J....

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Benjamin Carson received ten days leave after the Makin Island raid. He was billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in...

Joseph L. Harrison was born in March 1923 in Live Oak County in George West, Texas. When he was about five years old,...

William Lansford and the other Marine Raider recruits were taken to Jacques Farm where they began their training. The...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

William Lansford continued training while he was in Hawaii waiting for the Raiders who had carried out the raid on...

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