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Bailey feels that war should be over with. His division fought the Chinese in North Korea. Young men are fighting today...

Frank Campisano was born in April 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. He had a happy childhood and family. During the...

James "Jim" Marshall was born in August 1923 in Reading, Kansas. He grew up on a farm with his six siblings. His family...

Robert G. Aldous did not have nightmares early on. He has reoccurrences of some of the things he went through during...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

[Annotator's Note: Orville Bethard served in the Navy as an Electrician’s Mate aboard USS Midway (CVE-63), renamed USS...

Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

James Thomas Womack's ship [Annotator's Note: USS St. Louis (CL-49)] was on patrol duty until they were able to get...

Gordon Tadewaldt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the USS PGM-1 was caught in a typhoon on their way...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...

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