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Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

William Beaman was born in October 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, the only boy of three children. His father died when he was...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

After his discharge from serving in World War 2, Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. remained in the Naval Reserve and was called up...

[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...

Rudolph C. Miller had no place to go and nowhere to live when he was 16. He tried to forge his certificate [Annotator's...

Buck Donaldson had to be able to tell the difference between Morse code sounds [Annotator’s Note: Morse code is a...

Crain was 1 of the seaman in the boat. They were on a transport ship originally. When Crain was on the transport ship...

When Robert Freligh got out of the navy he went back to school at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. They had to go to...

Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...

Walter Nelson had a different pilot for his first raid. The pilot’s name was Lieutenant Womper [Annotators Note: unsure...

Salvador Perino liked his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)]. The ship's force learned to...

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