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While waiting for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Hutchins (DD-476)] to be commissioned, Mark Brannon learned that he...

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

There was a problem with some of the arming switches in the Bombing 3 [Annotator's Note: Bombing Squadron 3] bombers....

By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...

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...

Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe. He trained in a small...

Hugh Wingo was born in August 1918 in South Carolina. When he was 13 years old, they moved to North Carolina. He lived...

Louis Block was born in December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and went to school there. He lost his mother at...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson kept moving north until he made it to Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Vella Lavella,...

When they [Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen and the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)] arrived at Pearl Harbor the men looked...

World War 2 changed Francis Bucher's life for the better. He matured a lot faster. He had a better understanding of...

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