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[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

William “Bill” Knapp volunteered for the US Navy when he was 17 years old. His parents consented to his enlistment....

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Archie Kelley went to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after graduating from the United States...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs was born in December 1922 in New Haven Connecticut. His father was a World War 1 veteran who had a...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

In 1964, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19) for the third time as the officer electrician....

Starnes has thought about the night the USS Boise ambushed the Tokyo Express many times. He had a sense of apprehension...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Entemedor (SS-340) in the role of quartermaster. After the commission of the ship...

Arles E. Cole was born in Porum, Oklahoma in December 1923. He grew up there. His childhood was rough. It was the...

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