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William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

Calvin Barrick grew up on a farm. He had four brothers and one sister but two of his brothers have died. Barrick was...

[Annotator's Note: David Harvey was discharged from the Navy in 1946. He then joined the Army for the Korean War on 1...

William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...

Robert Templet took his boot camp training in San Diego. The days started early for him. During his first week in...

In July 1946, Paul Ignatius was separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant in Los Angeles [Annotator’s Note:...

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was with the Asiatic Fleet [Annotator's Note: United States Asiatic Fleet, 1902 to 1942]....

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

William Beaman was 18 years old when he participated in his first submarine patrol in the Pacific, and he said he didn'...

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