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Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

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

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was drafted into the armed forces and chose to serve in the Navy. He boarded a train and was...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

Following Navy tradition, Harlan Twible was the last person to be pulled out of the water. He was picked up by the...

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

Hugh Ettinger was born in May 1926 in Watertown, New York. His father worked as a civil engineer, and they lived on...

Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...

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