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In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

James Oney was in Portland, Oregon after leaving his family farm in the middle of the summer [Annotator's Note: Summer...

The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

Eugene Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos...

Clayton Fisher spent the next two and a half years in the training command. Once, Fisher was chasing fighters and...

Lowell Rodrigue [Annotator's Note: after joining the crew of the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] headed north to Kiska in the...

Elmer Koenig enlisted on 7 May 1943. He graduated from high school in June 1943. His parents expected him to join. In...

James Thomas Womack's ship [Annotator's Note: USS St. Louis (CL-49)] was on patrol duty until they were able to get...

Running is in Ernest "Ernie" Andrus' nature. He has been a runner most of his life. He ran his first 200 mile relay...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

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