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Returning to the Pacific on the USS Brown (DD-546), John Cassidy participated in the invasion of Okinawa. He was there...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Ray Anthony was born in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania on 20 January 1922. He was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He left his...

He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...

Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was on scouting and...

Leon Griffith was on Dinagat Island [Annotator's Note: Dinagat Island, Philippines] and the Japanese sent a barge of...

William Roy had served in Battleship Division 5 in the Atlantic on the battleship Arkansas [Annotator's Note: USS...

Adolfo V. Celaya heard men who seemed to know each other [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

Claire Maddox went ashore [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, after the Battle of Eniwetok, 17 to 23 February...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy as an Electricians Mate aboard the submarine USS Sea Dragon then...

Robert Taylor slept in a hammock with netting for mosquitoes. They had tents. The chaplain was like the Red Cross guru...

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