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Raymond Gimbut joined the crew of the Selfridge [Annotator's Note: USS Selfridge (DD-357)]. He thought it was a good...

Jimmie Dyer went from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. All of their equipment was on the deck of the ship and it rained the...

Joseph Goble and the Marines went about strengthening their lines on the edge of the mountains [Annotator's Note: after...

William J. Twigger's training [Annotator's Note: on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944] was mainly...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Glass served in the Navy aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) as an aviation radioman in Fighting...

When Arthur Pendleton was on the ridge he recalled a shell from a Japanese naval gun landing in front of them. The...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Jack Pierce had a good job offer on the West Coast. He tried to get discharged there, but they would not do it. He...

Quintana had to board an Australian ship that left from American Samoa. On Tulagi, the landing was rougher than...

After basic training Richard Greer and the other Marines from his boot camp class went to Norfolk, Virginia where they...

Arthur Pendleton was friends with Johnny Rivers. Pendelton was in 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, which was machine guns....

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