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Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew lost their radar operator. Their copilot went to get a suntan and went to sleep. He fell...

From looking at the maps the 2 men discovered that the maps showed the same coastline, but the distances and everything...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

With no working equipment to run or steer the USS Cavalier (APA-37) after it was torpedoed, Edward Lee Allesandro said...

Chris Carawan was born in 1926 in Washington, North Carolina into a family of seagoing people. His father was a sea...

There was a small passageway that went all the way up the side of the ship to the front of the ship. It was lined with...

Carrol Smith served in the Marine Corps in 1943 and 1944. He was deployed overseas in short order. The bombs were...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior was born in August 1927 in Beaumont, Texas. He grew up in Big Hill, Texas where his...

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