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Elmer Koenig wanted to get out of the Navy, but he did not have enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Richard O'Hara took a train with eight others to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They did not know...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Starting in December 1943, John Smith was on New Guinea preparing for combat in the Admiralty Islands. They landed on...

John Burr was on watch and he could spot anything on watch at night. He wanted to be on his watch at least five minutes...

David R. Saunders saw his first combat at Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines]. He was not injured...

Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

Charles Brooks entered the United States Navy. He was first shipped to Athens, Georgia for basic physical training...

The American prisoners were rounded up on Monkey Point [Annotators Note: American servicemen captured by the Japanese...

In Sacramento Jones checked Doolittle out. Doolittle had selected as his crew, the crew of one of the pilots who had...

Morton William Werner returned to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and then took a train to...

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