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[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

After graduating from Navy training, Sam S. McKeel was assigned to LST-579 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] and...

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

Fred Bronfin was sent back [Annotator's Note: back to the United States] for more radar training and teaching at Saint...

Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...

Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...

Edmond Guidry joined the Navy in July 1942. He went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California...

Eugene Corson went to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22 June...

Dr. Robert Beynon was aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) for missions seven through nine. The seventh was a lifeguard duty...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

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