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Archie Kelley landed at Abemama [Annotator's Note: Abemama Atoll, Kiribati]. They were told there were Japanese...

Rufus Harris went to Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for one day. On his last trip, he had just gotten married...

Earnest told the man at the base that he was ordered to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was to report to them in 3 days. Three...

Wallace McKay was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he joined the USS Pollux (...

Dale Peterson served on two different cruisers, the USS San Diego (CL-53) and the USS San Juan (CL-54). His battle...

Everett Hyland's wounds still bother him. He had a nerve check done on him in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego,...

Vejtasa doesn't know of anyone being lost during the attack. The farther away they got from the scene, the worse the...

While in the Philippines, Charles Chatterton's vessel [Annotator's Note: LCI(L)-334, Landing Craft Infantry (Large)]...

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

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

Enlisting in the Navy at the age of 18, Lauren Bruner first reported to San Diego, California, for three months of...

Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

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