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Assault Preparations

In Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima

Read by Aaron Bennett

Joseph H. Alexander

Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th,…

Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers

In Specimen Days

Read by Aaron Elliott

Walt Whitman

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

The Disappearance

In The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War

Read by Aaron Walsh

George Durston

The boy scouts are at it again! The war in Warsaw, Poland was devastating and led to many broken families. When the beloved children of the …

Chapter 1, Part 1 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

In A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

Read by Aaron Bennett

Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman

It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…

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