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Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. During his overseas...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

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

After John Votrobeck graduated, he took a train through Omaha, [Annotator's Note: Omaha, Nebraska] and on 20 April [...

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

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

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

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

Fred Bronfin was sent back [Annotator's Note: back to the United States] for more radar training and teaching at Saint...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior volunteered for quartermaster school in the Navy. He was advised to sail on as...

Otis Kight's squadron, VF-42 [Annotator's Note: Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42), USS Yorktown (CV-5)] had the bulk of the...

John Nicholas was born in Marysville, Michigan in December 1924. He grew up in Marysville with his half brother and...

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