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Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

On 16 April [Annotator's Note: 16 April 1945], the Third Fleet was off the coast of Japan and sent planes out to hit...

On 1 June 1945, 800 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] and B-17s [Annotator's Note:...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus left [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Merchant Marine ship. Once they were...

They went directly into Ormoc Bay [Annotator's Note: Philippines]. Once the troops landed the kamikazes started to...

As far as a specific routine, they knew what had to be done when they woke up in the morning. The crews were very...

Harper Gruber described the crew as being divided between the dark crew - motor macs [Annotator's Note: motor machinist...

During the first night they [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the other survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

After returning to his carrier, Norman Kleiss got a cup of coffee and prepared for his next flight. About that time a...

They went to the South Pacific to the Solomons [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. The ship was pretty crowded.At Mare...

Louis Hutchinson was discharged from the Navy on 16 April 1946, in Bainbridge [Annotator's Note: Bainbridge, Maryland...

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