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Once his ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Sara Teasdale] reached Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] There was nothing...

James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...

Even with his hearing difficulties, Robert Dickinson still jumps when loud noises go off, in just the way he did when...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

When James McCorriston left the hospital, he was assigned to the USS Fall River (CA-131), then he left the Navy. He...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

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