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Noah Lewis was born in March 1925 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He had a normal life growing up. His mother was a house...

Ralph Marcarelli reacted badly to inoculations when he entered the Navy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He missed boot...

Fred Bergeron was waiting for a battle like Midway. He was very upset at what had been happening to them. He saw the...

Claude Bufford Shaw was in the Navy from July 1938 until his discharge in 1972, when he retired at the rank of Captain...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

Arles E. Cole left Pearl Harbor the next morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (...

Claude Taylor married his wife after graduating LSU [Annotator's Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,...

By the time he went overseas, Julian Trist Bringier McConnell did not have heavy ammunition. He spent most of his time...

Childers was then assigned to Ft. Rucker, Alabama. Childers though that Ft. Rucker would be good duty but it wasn't. He...

Robert Swan joined the Navy to avoid the draft. He was flying in Missoula where was going to school. He only had a year...

Patrick Zilliacus corresponded with his family. It was censored twice but he corresponded throughout the war with his...

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