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Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

Melvin Munch stopped at Guam en route to Okinawa. He was concerned about the requirements of going into a war zone. He...

Burl Loving was ordered to report to the 317 [Annotator’s Note: USS YMS-317 minesweeper] which was a 130-foot-long,...

On 1 September 1944, Edward Driscoll was involved in the bombing of Chichijima [Annotator's Note: Chichijima, Japan]....

Donald Hoff was regularly assigned to fly with Ensign Stone. Hoff was used to flying with him and felt like they were a...

Stewart Bass never crashed a plane but discusses an incident in Opa-locka, Florida when he was a aboard a TBM [...

William O’Brien was on duty in the Philippines. They kept their equipment ready. The ammunition was ready to go on the...

Fred Bronfin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born to immigrant parents immediately after World...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

Louis Andriano was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the war ended. There were no newspapers aboard...

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