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George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

Archibald "Archie" T. Higgins was born in New Orleans in January 1924. He is a lifelong resident of the New Orleans...

Vernon Henry Moret returned to Maryland after he was discharged from the Army and lived with his parents. He attended...

The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom left Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] and went 7,000 miles across the ocean back...

While in Hawaii, Frank Faust can remember submarines would come in for repair and overhaul, and the crew members would...

Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe. He trained in a small...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

Bill Norberg boarded USS Enterprise (CV-6) and was amazed by the ship. He could never find the swimming pool. He was a...

World War 2 made Whayland Harvel Greene appreciate food, water, and shelter. He had no food for five days during his...

John Nicholas was a Seaman 2nd Class deck hand when he went aboard the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)]....

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson kept moving north until he made it to Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Vella Lavella,...

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