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Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

Cleatus Lebow was kept in the hospital ward for four weeks, then flew from Samar Island [Annotator's Note: Samar Island...

Donald Herbert Shown and the Indianapolis [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] were in the Aleutians at the...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the navy aboard the submarines USS Thresher (SS-200) and USS Lizardfish (SS-...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

Shortly after Frederick Ellis reached Japan and the point system was in place for sending them home. The points got...

Blanchard was still feeling the effects of the smoke inhalation when he was in Honolulu. He dealt with this injury for...

Edwin Henlebin described the beachhead as glutted with supplies. The problem was getting the material from the beach to...

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