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Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

James Allen was 16 years old in the spring of 1942 and a junior in high when he decided to join the Navy. In March he...

Thomas Tizzard was stationed on ships in the South Pacific. Supplies came from Australia and once could not contact the...

Donald Dean went to Farragut, Idaho for boot camp then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for fire control school where he...

Gerald Kynett could run 20 to 25 word a minute using signal. After stopping at Enewetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetok...

Edmond Guidry wanted to kill the Japanese for what they did. When the war ended, the United States still did not trust...

The invasion at Ormoc Bay was small and consisted mainly of destroyers and rocket firing landing craft.The Laffey [...

Austin H. Kiplinger was born in 1918 and raised in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding regions in Virginia and...

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