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James McEnery was born in Brooklyn, New York in September 1919. He grew up in Brooklyn in a rugged area. There was a...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

William Goldsborough was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 1926 and grew up in the rural community of...

When Bill Toledo was home with his grandparents, he did not want to go to school. The school official forced him to go...

After the war, Richard H. Kerr enlisted into the regular Navy and remained in service for 30 years. His first...

Jack Dunlavy came back for Navy Day [Annotator's Note: 27 October 1945]. He thought he wanted to stay in the Navy but...

Sidney Philips remembers the Marines bringing the amphibious tank up the creek from the beach. It was just sitting...

Walter Amoss was born in 1924 in Lake Charles [Annotator's Note: Lake Charles, Louisiana] and grew up in New Orleans [...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...

Frank Kern, [Annotator's Note: with A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division], arrived in...

Paul J. Murphy had his first campaign [Annotator’s Note: as a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] in...

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