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Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...

Victor K. Carman wanted to become an electronics engineer. While he was at the Great Lakes Naval Base [Annotator's Note...

Joseph Daquana was born in Plaquemines, Louisiana in May 1928. He was the second youngest child in a family of seven...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

Walter Nelson was only 19 years old at the time [Annotators Note: at the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea]. The USS...

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

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was on USS LST-124 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank] until just before the end of the war...

The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...

Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...

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

Ray Anthony saw the big band era subside with the influx of the rock and roll genre. Anthony seldom performs now....

Towards the end of World War 2, John Carruth, serving in the Navy, was sent to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note:...

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