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Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was an engine operator who was on the ground...

John Mikus, Jr. took a ship zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] across [Annotator's Note:...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

Arthur Killam kept up with some of the guys he served with in the US Navy during the war but never went to any of the...

Enlisting in the Navy at the age of 18, Lauren Bruner first reported to San Diego, California, for three months of...

Raymond Hayes went into service in July 1947 [Annotator's Note: he corrects this later]. He got out in 1959. He had...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr has seen the interest in World War 2 become stronger in the last few years. To him, his career...

Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war of the Japanese] left the war feeling that we are all human beings...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

Allen Lamm enlisted in the Navy and did his basic training in Great Lakes, Illinois. The training was not very...

Lawrence Winnier and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32)] made several trips [Annotator's Note: as a...

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