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Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was born in April 1923 in Visalia, California. During the Great Depression, his father worked for...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Schneider recounts that after the Marshall Islands raid in early February 1942, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) participated...

Edmund Aziz and his ship [Annotator’s Note: with the USS Reeves (DE-156), converted to an attacked transport as APD-52...

Frederick Ellis's points were up, and he was entitled to go home. He got a new officer on board [Annotator's Note: USS...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. got his orders in May 1943. [Annotator's Note: Someone off-camera interrupts Snyder.] Snyder had...

Lionel Lopez was shot in the back and it came out of his chest. He was taken to a field hospital. The doctor stitched...

Robert L. Donovan did not want to be in the infantry. He was working at the Goodrich Company when he learned that the...

The military aide told Hershel Williams to take the envelope and do not open it as it was a court martial offense if it...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

Paris Tognoli came into Empress Augusta Bay [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Papau New Guinea, 28 December 1943] and...

Fred Bronfin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born to immigrant parents immediately after World...

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