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Ralph Weymouth's first combat action was off Guadalcanal. They were supporting the landings on the seventh [Annotator's...

On Guadalcanal, Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment faced some enemy air raids and naval...

After a year, Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson's flotilla [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 6 (MTBRon 6)] was...

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

Sterling Cale was assigned to the 1st Marine Division right after Pearl Harbor. He did not have a proper Marine uniform...

Thomas Goss was sent overseas to New Caledonia with his unit [Annotator’s Note: Marine Air Group 25] as a radio...

John Wesley Tatum used a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun; while serving in Company H,...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout this segment.] Rawley R. Hill [Annotator’s...

John Wesley Tatum was in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division when they landed on...

James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...

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