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[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

Gene Alair was in the South Pacific for many months. He was on a Transport Division Commander's Staff, CTD8. They had...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

The USS Princeton (CV-37) could not get close to the island [Annotator's Note: Johnston Atoll, United States Minor...

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

Robert Hammond had to deal with his own health when he was on leave in Philadelphia. He had an appendectomy, and while...

The USS San Francisco (CA-38) replenished and headed down towards the Coral Sea. They raided New Guinea airport and the...

Robert Templet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1920. At the age of five years old, his family moved to...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was a crewman on an LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also...

Alfred Rodrigues identified Japanese aircraft by the large circles on their wings. It was Sunday and he had just sat...

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