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When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

When Harold Long graduated from Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts], he was...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

Wahlen said he hesitated talking about the war when he came home, but sometimes the pressure was put on him to talk....

Robert Taylor arrived in Samoa in April 1942. The Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] campaign...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Leon Griffith was in the Philippines and was hunting Japanese who were on a mountain and firing artillery shells at...

Emmett Charles Guderian Jr., was born in December 1926 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

Wesley Waggoner returned home and continued his military career. He spent time in the Navy reserves and trained with...

Jack D. Owen was born in Lufkin, Texas in 1926. He had a twin sister and an older brother. Owen’s father struggled...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

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