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Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

Alfred Taddeo became an instructor at Melbourne, Florida where he met several former VF-10 [Annotator's Note: Fighting...

Theodore Marolda has had to pay out of his own pocket for medical expenses because veteran benefits would take too long...

Jack Holder was ready to be discharged from the Navy because he had gotten married. He went to school and received a...

Harry Watson said that when the war started, the submarines were used merely as a scouting force. They would get...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Robert S. Gibbs was assigned to fleet maneuvers at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the USS...

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Romus Burgin and the men of the 5th Marine Regiment shipped out from Melbourne in September 1943 and were stationed for...

Archie Kelley arrived at Annapolis [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] and had to...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

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