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Richard Micklich was born in 1921 in Pueblo, Colorado. He spent the entirety of his childhood in Pueblo as part of a...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan shipped out of San Diego, California to New Caledonia aboard the USS...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for service with the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator...

Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

Harry Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in August 1926. His father was a glazier, his mother a housewife and he...

Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

Philip Curran was born in May 1927 on Orrs Island, Maine. He had two brothers and one sister. His father was a mate on...

When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey served in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13). He...

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