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Donald Hoff's plane was not bothered [Annotator's Note: by Japanese fighters during the second strike of the Battle of...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

William Beaman was born in October 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, the only boy of three children. His father died when he was...

There were still natives on Johnston Island [Annotator's Note: Johnston Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands]...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Robert Hammond's medical training was in suturing, and one of his major challenges on Guam occurred when there were no...

J. W. Childs was born in Cisco, Texas. From a young age, however, he and his little sister lived with their parents in...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

Being a submariner prepared Billy Grieves for his career as a firefighter. After seeing the worst, everything else is...

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

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