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Thomas Tizzard decided to separate having survived two ships being torpedoed. He had had enough combat. Once on Guam,...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Before that, while instructing in SB2As [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer light scout bomber], Clayton Fisher...

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

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

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

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

Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

James Allen was 16 years old in the spring of 1942 and a junior in high when he decided to join the Navy. In March he...

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