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John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

Captain Murray [Annotators Note: Captain Stuart S. Murray] was the captain on the USS Missouri. Starnes and Murray got...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

Ben Ray Bost is the only veteran left alive of the men on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316]. He was born in...

Emil Kesselman went through boot camp in Samson, New York [Annotator’s Note: after enlisting in the US Navy in November...

Paul Lawrence was sent to the Admiralty Islands. All the roads were made of ground coral that was full of salt. Every...

Baptiste was born in Saint James Parish, Louisiana on 4 November 1916. He is in town [Annotator's Note: New Orleans]...

Windom Joseph Burton went into Navy boot camp in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia] and was then sent for...

During the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

Randall Edwards retired from the Navy and got a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. In...

From Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Donald Campbell and the USS LST-809 prepared for the invasion of...

John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...

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