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While preparing the West Virginia [Annotator's Note: the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] to go into drydock, Archie Kelley...

Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

James J. Hill lived through one tough experience. It was the mission that Pappy was shot down [Annotator’s Note: later...

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

Hopkins was aboard the Hornet when they were under attack. It was quite an attack. The first few bombs knocked out the...

Holly Rees was born in January 1926 in Prescott, Arizona. Although he grew up during the Great Depression, his father...

William Lutz liked boot camp because he got a rifle. He liked the firing range. He became a gunner after basic training...

James Patterson and his crew flew over water for several hours before doing their mapping work. Their missions ran...

Richard Witaker volunteered for the United States Marine Corps because he was impressed by his friends who had done so...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Kolesa was on Kauai, Hawaii with the Searchlight Battery, 8th Antiaircraft Artillery...

Henry Bourgeois went to work in the aerospace industry for Singer as a sales engineer. He was then made a planner and...

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