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Walter Nelson used to fly out into the fog near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Sometimes he flew underneath the Bay...

There was some rivalry between the Coast Guard and the Navy but they got along fine. There was also a time when a...

James Billingsley worked with Filipino forces. He was in the middle of it, and was pulled out. There was a Filipino...

James Ramage and other pilots were ready to go [Annotator's Note: Ramage is talking about attacking Japanese aircraft...

General John Singlaub was born in 1921 in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Range of California. His grandfather...

Charles Womack shipped out from San Diego. He does not remember what he thought about as he left the United States. The...

Clifford Albert Hahn landed at Baybay on Leyte Island in the Philippines. He saw MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

In civilian life, William J. Twigger had a dear friend who became an officer in the Navy. By stroke of luck, he wrote...

While Martin Suter was on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], there were still a lot of Japanese troops on...

One memorable experience that came to mind for William Beaman was when his submarine, the USS Flasher (SS-249), sank...

George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

Charles Bruce was on the USS Lander (APA-178). Their job was to haul men and equipment wherever they needed to go. They...

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