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Fred Bronfin adjusted easily to military life but felt he was losing time in his career. To differentiate between...

Otis Kight participated in the Battle of Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942]. Few...

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

When Wallace McKay departed for New Guinea, he returned to Hollandia [Annotator's Note: Hollandia, New Guinea; now...

The Laffey was in a rough state. She had been hit a number of times from a number of direction. Everything from the...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Barrick served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Tang (SS-306) and was aboard during...

After the war, Robert S. Gibbs told his boss he was getting married, and he asked for a raise. His pay went up to 200...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

After the war, Robert Perry found employment as a painter and as a lumber yard worker. He never used the G.I. Bill [...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Dye served in the Navy aboard USS LSM-232.] There were 60 men and 6 officers on their crew....

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

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