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John "Jack" Raquepau went to get his harness fit and there were enlisted people living on that deck. They had about...

Wallace McKay left high school in 1943 and enlisted in the Navy. His enlistment was to end on his 21st birthday. His...

Mort Oman was born in Chicago, Illinois in September 1923 and moved to Winnetka, Illinois when he was in the sixth...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] associated...

The first of the three battles that stands out to William Lansford was at Asamana on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11...

James Morehead discusses his aerial victory while he was on an escort mission over Romania. He saw two planes that...

Lowell Rodrigue was assigned to a special unit and sent to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau Islands], but the...

Buck Donaldson joined the Navy. He went to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp by train....

James Wilson got off Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, February 1944]...

Manila was "decimated" except for the Mac Arthur Hotel, where the officer's would go, and Ray Gene Gresham said he only...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

Robert M. Solomon was on deck when they got a submarine. He had to hold on, or he would have gone overboard when the...

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