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Robert Lents said that for a year and a half the prisoners did everything from building an underground radio station to...

Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

Benjamin Clark Amsden transitioned to flying the Corsair [Annotator's Note: Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft after...

After he was discharged, Thomas Tizzard looked for a job. He worked in New Orleans, Louisiana as a conductor on a...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Coming back to the United States was kind of boring for Robert D. Shaner. They [Annotator's Note: Shaner and the crew...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was assigned to the crew of a crash boat and deployed to Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll,...

By the time they [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the others in his group of survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-...

Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was born in August 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. His father owned a sheet metal business and...

Paul Sparacino was ordered aboard the USS Princeton [Annotator's Note: USS Princeton (LPH-5)] as an airdale [Annotator'...

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were part of Task Group 38.2 under Admiral...

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