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Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

That was as close as Emmett Kaylor ever came to getting hit [Annotator's Note: during a Japanese attack in the...

Rudolph C. Miller had no place to go and nowhere to live when he was 16. He tried to forge his certificate [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

Calvin B. Moore was born in December 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

There were a lot of good guys in Frank Stewart's unit with the exception of some of the officers. On Guadalcanal,...

The first time Willie Roy Hebert had ever been on a ship was when he was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

Harold Buell flew both the Douglas SBD Dauntless and the Curtis SB2C Helldiver dive bombers. There were positive and...

Richard Higgins often wonders why he walked away when so many of his friends did not. Higgins knew that Captain Haldane...

William Stewart wore fatigues with big pockets. He would keep pocketbooks and would read while he waited in lines. He...

William Leibold spoke to his wife Grace for the first time in years while he was in Oakland. She wanted to visit but he...

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