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Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. The major missions of the ship were...

Martin L. Suter was born in January 1921, in Rochester, New York. He had a brother and sister growing up, but he was...

James Ramage was at Pearl Harbor when the Battle of Midway took place. He was not aboard ship at the time. The...

Vejtasa had hit the carrier he had made a run on. Fighting 42 was aboard the Yorktown and was commanded by Jimmy...

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Louis Conter and the VP-11 [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 11] Catalinas [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

After bootcamp, Carrel Reavis was sent to Hawaii, where he stayed for the whole war. All he did was load and unload...

Marthe Cohn was the chief of a hospital at the DMZ [Annotator's Note: the Demilitarized Zone, Vietnam; then French...

Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

George Hamilton was assigned to a skeleton crew aboard the USS Orleck (DD-886) in Norfolk, Virginia when he first heard...

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