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In January 1944, Philip Nelson was training on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in San Diego [Annotator’s...

One night, Leon Griffith was on patrol. The sergeant said they should all lay down and go to sleep. The moon came up...

Allen Lamm enlisted in the Navy and did his basic training in Great Lakes, Illinois. The training was not very...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was born in April 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

J. W. Childs was born in Cisco, Texas. From a young age, however, he and his little sister lived with their parents in...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS Potomac (AG-25) in Washington D.C. while he served with the Navy. He was visiting...

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

Harry Watson said describing life aboard a submarine can be confusing to someone who isn't qualified. Once qualified, a...

Claude Bufford Shaw was in the Navy from July 1938 until his discharge in 1972, when he retired at the rank of Captain...

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