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Edward Chinnis enlisted in the Navy on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11 November 1942] in Raleigh, North Carolina then...

The battle on Tarawa provided countless opportunities for combat cameramen like Norman Hatch to capture story telling...

Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

Charles Kneflin had never seen anything like the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]....

Pearson Riddle felt like America did what they had to do. He knows that the Japanese have a good work ethic and are...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

William Winter would go out with the patrols to round up Japanese soldiers. They had an airplane and would go pick...

John Gehrett [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit] participated in the occupation of Japan...

Wallace Spencer remembers the air groups and the pilots stayed away from the sailors. In one attack, all the colored...

Mack graduated from high school June 1st, 1943. He entered the United States Navy on July 13th, 1943 and was discharged...

Richard Keller had a good friend from Alabama who was a funny guy. He received different training than Keller had...

When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell left the bigger ship that took him overseas, he patrolled mountainous islands and...

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