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Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was quickly released from the Navy after the war and attended college on the G.I. Bill [...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....

The worst duty for Vernon Micheel was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a Douglas SBD...

Louis Conter was located between the USS Arizona (BB-39)'s turrets three and four during the attack. With the terrible...

[Annotator's Note: Marvin Tyson served in the Navy aboard the USS LSM-270, the lead landing ship, for the invasion of...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

After the war, James Smith had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He got a job before he was even discharged from...

Ralph Burch went to signal school in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California]. He was put in the...

Frank H. O'Leary and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

On 7 December 1941, Theodore Pavlovich, along with many of his fellow riflemen, was on their barracks roof using the...

Lewis S. Evans served as assistant harbor master for his community in Massachusetts after he retired. He answered the...

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