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Photograph, aerial. Large columns of smoke rising from Makin Island as American landing craft cruise towards a beach....

The first of the three battles that stands out to William Lansford was at Asamana on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11...

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

When William Lansford and the other members of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion were in New Zealand he was walking down...

James Salerno stayed in San Diego for about four or five months. From there they went to Pearl Harbor where they saw...

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...

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