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Chester Biernacki and the USS Helena (CL-50) participated in several shore bombardments [Annotator's Note: after action...

To Edmund Durocher, New Britain was just as bad as Guadalcanal. They went to New Guinea before they landed on New...

The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Following departure from New Georgia, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] reached...

Richard Yavenue was born in July 1925 in Harvey, Illinois. He had three sisters. His dad was a laborer and died when...

Gerald West didn't think often of the Raiders after the war. In recent years the numerous reunions and meetings West...

Donald Long and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 12 (VP-12)] were transferred to the group that became...

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

Robert M. Solomon lost a girlfriend when he had to go participate in the maneuvers. He felt like the United States...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

On 1 September 1942 Tyler was transferred to the 44th [Annotator's Note: 44th Fighter Squadron] at Bellows Field as...

On 11 July 1944, George Colburn and two others went into the Federal building in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston,...

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