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Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

Robert D. Shaner's mom was German and was upset with the Germans after the First World War and her German relatives who...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

Austin H. Kiplinger was born in 1918 and raised in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding regions in Virginia and...

James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

After leaving Pearl Harbor, William Roy and the rest of the crew of the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Blanchard was still feeling the effects of the smoke inhalation when he was in Honolulu. He dealt with this injury for...

Martin Suter was sent to Colgate University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York], where he took part a pilot...

Chester Hollingsworth was born on a farm in October 1917 near Greenville, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters....

The USS San Francisco (CA-38) replenished and headed down towards the Coral Sea. They raided New Guinea airport and the...

Paul Sparacino [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during Operation Dominic, series of...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

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