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Sam S. McKeel graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and was offered...

Frederick Jenkins thought it was hard to get organized. He had a school teacher as his company commander during boot...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

Walter Nelson recognized that they were close enough that they could have bailed over Australia if they needed to. From...

When they were heading to Tonga, Fred Bergeron and the rest of his air group were dropped off in Fiji. They flew some...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

Richard Miralles got word on his 18th birthday that they were going home. He went on liberty [Annotator's Note: an...

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

What they [Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves and his fellow crewmen aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200)] didn't...

Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

Harvey Mittleman [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was shipped from...

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