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Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Elmer Koenig enlisted on 7 May 1943. He graduated from high school in June 1943. His parents expected him to join. In...

Besides the atomic tests, F. Lincoln Grahlfs found other work to do while at Bikini Atoll [Annotator's Note: Bikini...

John E. Johnson said he got along with everybody on his ship. He reluctantly exposed the fact that the USS Liddle (ADP-...

Austin H. Kiplinger experienced friendly fire in the Fall of 1944 [Annotator's Note: as a pilot with Composite...

While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the invasions of the Marshall and Gilbert...

Paul Sparacino found out about atomic veterans [Annotator's Note: atomic veteran; any veteran who, as part of his or...

[Annotators Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Howard Robert Charles was inducted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in June 1940] in San Diego [Annotator's...

Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

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