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The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Swan was a pilot and navigator in Navy Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44). He was the navigator and...

Jack Yusen remembers the shells flying by sounded like freight trains and the explosions sounding like thunder. Another...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Sam L. Miller reported aboard the USS Edgecombe (APA-164) in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

The first couple times Arthur Killam was depth charged it was a little hairy but he does not recall getting too upset...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

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