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Mouton, George Prewar Life
George Mouton was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1926. He was young during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...
Buell, Harold "Hal" Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Harold Buell was involved in a carrier versus carrier battle in the Eastern Solomon Islands. Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern...
Camp, Ray Entrance into Service
Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...
Rosenzweig, Rollins Covering the Invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Rollins Rosenzweig was part of the aircraft carrier naval air cover for the invasion of Iwo Jima. [Annotator's Note:...
Johnson, Jean "JD" Submarine Life
Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...
Zilliacus, Patrick Combat Close Call
[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if, as an American immigrant in the Navy, he was invested in...
Brannon, Mark Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in...
Hoff, Donald Nervous Pilots and Station HYPO
Donald Hoff was regularly assigned to fly with Ensign Stone. Hoff was used to flying with him and felt like they were a...
Burke, Murphy Hits and Near Misses
Soon after the Battle of the Philippines, Murphy Burke remembers spending a week at one of the larger ports, Ulithi....
Ronson, Harold Iwo Jima
When Harold Ronson got onto the beach at Iwo [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo...
Alvarez, Charles War's End & Postwar
Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman during his service in World War 2. When the...
Bucher, Francis The Campaign in the Aleutian Islands and Squeaky Anderson
The invasion of Attu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Attu, Alaska, 11 to 30 May 1943] was made with fresh troops from the...

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