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Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

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

In April 1940, Jack Holder enlisted in the Navy and completed bootcamp in San Diego, California. Boot camp was...

Walter Bank used the G.I. Bill for graduate school at WPI [Annotator's Note: Worcester Polytechnic Institute in...

When his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] was up, Salvador Guercia returned...

Sam L. Miller was born in September 1926 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was an only child because his mother could...

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

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

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

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

Raymond Hayes and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tortuga (LSD-26)] went to different places in China, delivering food...

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