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Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Archibald Rackerby stayed in the Marine Corps after the war ended. He was not 100 percent after his injury. [Annotator'...

Before the Battle of the Coral Sea , Vejtasa's group got some information on the Japanese base at Rabaul and the...

Kenneth Killilea received his Marine Corps boot camp training at Parris Island. The moment he stepped off the bus upon...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]When...

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

Kenneth Marshall's first overseas destination was Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. He had no idea where he was. Early on,...

Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...

When activity became concentrated at Guadalcanal, they [Annotator's Note: James Morehead and the rest of the 8th...

Troy Edwards and his unit [Annotator's Note: Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 14 (CASU-14)] reached Guadalcanal and set up...

George Allen says he was part of something that worked out well. He was worried that we [Annotator's Note: the United...

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