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The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...

Austin H. Kiplinger took trips to Germany in 1932 and 1938. Allusions to the war effort were everywhere. In 1938, he...

Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...

Vejtasa had hit the carrier he had made a run on. Fighting 42 was aboard the Yorktown and was commanded by Jimmy...

James Oney was in Portland, Oregon after leaving his family farm in the middle of the summer [Annotator's Note: Summer...

Victor K. Carman remembers the typhoon. It was significant. The Philippines got hit by a typhoon with winds of 190...

In late 1945, the USS Sagittarius (AKN-2) returned to Norfolk, Virginia and Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the ship in...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

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

Lowell Rodrigue [Annotator's Note: after joining the crew of the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] headed north to Kiska in the...

Paul Sparacino was in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)] when Vietnam [Annotator's...

Running is in Ernest "Ernie" Andrus' nature. He has been a runner most of his life. He ran his first 200 mile relay...

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