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Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

Asked if he had plans or goals for his postwar life, Arthur Lee said he had no idea what he would do when he returned...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson was born in April 1919. He was called "Little Robbie" on his PT Boat [Annotator's Note:...

As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...

After enlisting in the Navy, John St. Germain had his boot camp training in Farragut, Idaho [Annotator’s Note: Farragut...

Lloyd Dendy and his brother went to Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego, California by train. When they arrived in San...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm returned from the war and was happy that the G.I. Bill was available [Annotator's Note: the...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After the war ended...

Lionel Lopez was a shoe salesman before the war. He went back to work for the same company after he got out of the...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

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