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Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Before the Marines landed on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) bombarded the...

Fred Gemmel's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)] was assisted into a port after sustaining damage [...

Martin Carmody and Les Ward finally joined back up with each other. They had both consumed a lot of fuel during their...

Most of the tests had to do with navigation. They got off of the ship in Pearl Harbor. Eventually Earnest was told that...

After Gerald Wayne Lux was in boot camp [Annotator’s Note: in Farragut Naval Training Station near Bayview, Idaho in...

Paul J. Frisco's regular watch station aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) during the first year or so he was aboard was in...

Gerald Kynett picked up his ship in Evansville, Indiana, then sailed down the Mississippi [Annotator's Note:...

William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

After the clean-up of Pearl Harbor, John Cassidy chose to stay in the Pacific on the USS Vincennes (CA-44) which...

Joseph Brannan returned to Melville, Rhode Island as a PT boat instructor [Annotator's Note: at the Motor Torpedo Boat...

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