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Clayton Fisher planned to join the Army Air Corps until a friend of his joined the Navy as an aviator. Fisher applied...

Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...

Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

Howard Robert Charles was inducted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in June 1940] in San Diego [Annotator's...

Charles Bruce was on the USS Lander (APA-178). Their job was to haul men and equipment wherever they needed to go. They...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez was clearing out a town [Annotator's Note: with the 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry...

Myron J. Carraway was waiting for breakfast when the Pearl Harbor attack began [Annotator's Note: Carraway was aboard...

James Gaffney got into trouble in Cartagena [Annotator’s Note: Cartagena, Colombia]. Some of the crew was driven in a...

David Hanning was assigned as an assistant to a lieutenant and then to the headquarters of an adjutant general where he...

Vernon Micheel met his future wife in June 1943 in Wildwood, New Jersey. They were married in October 1946. Micheel...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan], Adolfo V. Celaya...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

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