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Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

Dr. Robert Beynon was aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) for missions seven through nine. The seventh was a lifeguard duty...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

Describing PT-371 [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat], Richard McEwen said that it had a big "day room" up front,...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

Jack Linscott was stationed in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California]. They left for Australia in...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

At Ormoc Bay, John E. Johnson drove his LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel also referred to as...

Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...

Raymond Hayes went into service in July 1947 [Annotator's Note: he corrects this later]. He got out in 1959. He had...

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