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Everywhere that Frederick Ellis went there was an officer's club. The enlisted men never got that. Every once in a...

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

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

William Roy remembers the fighter planes beginning to malfunction after being at sea for so long. A lot of planes'...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Archie Kelley admired Rickover [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover; nicknamed Father of the Nuclear...

Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...

Billy Grieves was born in Liberty Center, Ohio. At a young age his parents moved the family to Detroit, Michigan for...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

Arthur L. Eads met his wife not long after he returned home from World War 2. He married her in February 1946. He...

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