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Harold C. Cook was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania. His father produced milk and ice cream on his dairy farm. Cook...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

On 2 July 1942, Jack Holder [Annotator’s Note: serving with Patrol Squadron 23 (VP-23)] was deployed to Noumea, New...

Whidhelm ended up as the CO of Scouting 8 aboard the USS Hornet. One day while sitting in the ready room Vejtasa...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

John Burr joined the Naval ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] in college. He was always interested...

Astley Blackwell’s ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] was sunk on 25 October [Annotator's Note: 25...

John Kreutzberg’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on...

Phineas Stevens was in every D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day denotes the day on which an important operation begins]...

Cecil Ezell McLain was aboard the battleship [Annotator's Note: USS Tennessee (BB-43)] when it bombarded and took Kiska...

Bruner's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Coghlan (DD-606)] returned briefly to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before setting out for...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

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