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Dave Severance joined the Marine Corps in October 1938 at the age of 19. He was on liberty in Los Angeles when he first...

Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

David Hanning was assigned as an assistant to a lieutenant and then to the headquarters of an adjutant general where he...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...

Leisey's father was a railroad worker and his mother was a garment worker. They survived the Great Depression by...

Frederick Ellis and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-751] went back and forth among the islands in the Pacific on...

In the spring of 1946, Hugh Ettinger was stationed at Rongerik Atoll [Annotator’s Note: Rongerik Atoll, Marshall...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...

William Roy remembers the fighter planes beginning to malfunction after being at sea for so long. A lot of planes'...

The USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) sailed among several Pacific Islands, and Elmer Spraker admitted that he was a little...

James L. Wheeler spoke to a high school class and there was a person of Japanese descent in it. He asked what Wheeler...

Rowland Elliott Ball reported to San Antonio Cadet Classification Center [Annotator’s Note: San Antonio, Texas] where...

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