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They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

James Muri knew the Navy had sunk four Japanese carriers during the battle [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

Philip Schweitzer's training was heavy on hiking, running and jogging. When they returned from furlough, some of the...

Theodore Marolda has had to pay out of his own pocket for medical expenses because veteran benefits would take too long...

Ricardo R. Rondinelli was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in April 1924. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. left a situation where he was tasked with destroying everything and went home to a place...

Keith Kiefer was born in January 1957 in Longview, Texas. In school, he did not get taught about World War 2 until...

Marthe Cohn was the chief of a hospital at the DMZ [Annotator's Note: the Demilitarized Zone, Vietnam; then French...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

Ralph Weymouth was awarded the Navy Cross for the Battle of the Philippine Sea. He was given the award for his...

On that Saturday [Annotator's Note: 6 December 1941], Archie Kelley's uncle Bruce [Annotator's Note: US Navy Commander...

Richard Bennett described the PT-470 as being armed with a thunderbolt, which is a 37mm and a 20mm cannon mounted...

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