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On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

Astley Blackwell, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1925. During the depression his family lived with his...

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

[Annotator's Note: Jack Dye served in the Navy aboard USS LSM-232.] There were 60 men and 6 officers on their crew....

Robert Savage's most memorable experience of the war was seeing the treaty signed [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

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

Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

The boats were scattered around little islands, each with a pier, and Richard McEwen said the sailors ate their meals...

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

After finishing his training, John Snyder was assigned to the USS Harry Lee (APA-10), which transported troops to North...

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