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Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was a machinist mate and electrician on the USS Albermarle (AV-5). Their mission was to test...

At Okinawa, Wilbur Rogers' ship [Annotator's Note: USS Foote (DD-511)] was part of a radar picket station, a system...

On 1 September 1944, Edward Driscoll was involved in the bombing of Chichijima [Annotator's Note: Chichijima, Japan]....

Vernon Micheel attacked a Japanese cruiser on the last day of the battle [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting...

Joseph Daquana completed submarine training in New London [Annotator’s Note: New London, Connecticut]. During his...

Joseph Barger was born in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He took a bus to school...

Frederick Ellis was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea. He recalls that they were not slated to go on the Leyte [Annotator's...

Harold Joslin was an intercept operator [Annotator's Note: communication code specialist who interpreted enemy coded...

Robert Swan and three other guys in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44)] rented a house. Each...

Jack D. Samuelson continued at Occidental [Annotator’s Note: he was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles,...

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