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Earl Angel was born in August 1923 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He had ten siblings, four sisters and six brothers. His...

Edmund Durocher had been in Headquarters Company but was transferred out ten days before they left New River [Annotator...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

After boot camp, Norman Elliott was assigned to a newly-commissioned ship, the USS Pasadena (CL-65). From the Boston...

Milton Fernandez was sailed to the Galapagos Islands, near Ecuador. The company was stationed in boxes around the...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Benjamin Hagans enjoyed fishing. He did not wear clothes until he was six years old. He would climb trees and gather...

Archie Kelley admired Rickover [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover; nicknamed Father of the Nuclear...

After Gerald Wayne Lux was in boot camp [Annotator’s Note: in Farragut Naval Training Station near Bayview, Idaho in...

Bailey checked in with his draft board and was put on a bus to Camp Croft. He told the army recruiter that he wanted to...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], F. Lincoln Grahlfs received orders to tow away the USS Hugh W. Hadley...

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