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Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...

After the war, Wiley did meet the island chief's grandson and granddaughter. The relatives of the chief came to the US...

Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

[Annotator's Note: William Roy reviews a series of photographs he captured during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. He...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. War patrol became an everyday...

Gene Alair received some schooling at government expense back when he was married. He had been sent back to Harvard...

[Annotator's Note: Patrick Zilliacus emigrated to the United States from Finland with his mother and brother.] They...

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was with the Asiatic Fleet [Annotator's Note: United States Asiatic Fleet, 1902 to 1942]....

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson was born in April 1919. He was called "Little Robbie" on his PT Boat [Annotator's Note:...

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