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

Martin Carmody and Les Ward finally joined back up with each other. They had both consumed a lot of fuel during their...

In Norfolk, Claude Shannahan met a WAVE [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] girl during...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...

James L. Wheeler was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] to train for the Battle of Japan....

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and Service Company, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

One of Angus Francis Mestayer's friends was lonesome and he wanted to go home. One guy on the rifle range climbed the...

Robert Clifford Pryor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1920. Growing up during the Great Depression [...

Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...

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