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

There were plenty of men with shell shock [Annotator's Note: psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Joe Morris was born in Daisy, Georgia in September 1925. Two years later, he and his family moved to Jacksonville [...

In 1943, Frank Pantuso reported to the local recruiting station on his 18th birthday and joined the Marine Corps. He...

Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...

Tyler flew a number of missions at Guadalcanal and again later in the Philippines. On the 15th of June 43 [Annotator's...

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

Kenneth Dwight Wells arrived in the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Russell Islands, Solomon Islands] and spent some...

Gerry Jones trained with the United States Marines, joining the Scout and Sniper Company at Camp Elliott [Annotator's...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Richard Greer served as a machinegunner in Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. During...

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