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The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alex Vraciu was...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow did not see any combat [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] like his brothers did, so he...

Air Group 6 was fleshed out with the detachment Jack Glass was part of. When it reported aboard [Annotator's Note:...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled picking up survivors from the USS Franklin (CV-13) during the kamikaze attacks off...

Donald Herbert Shown picked up a lifejacket from the grouping he found in nets on the boat deck [Annotator’s Note:...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

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

Edwin Henlebin was born in 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri, and lived there his entire life, except for when he was in the...

John Nicholas experienced Japanese suicide attacks on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)]. A wooden...

John W. Snyder was born in March 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, Snyder's family was poor. However, because...

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