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One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

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

Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

Frank George Memory was a crewman on a submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Gato (SS-212)]. The boat was about 300 feet...

The first flight Jack Glass went on was a search mission during the later stage of the Eastern Solomons campaign. The...

Louis Conter enjoyed knowing both Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. He enjoyed Bob Hope the most as he was the serviceman's...

After he returned to the United States, Robert Lents took a test to go to officers' school, but after he passed, he...

Chester Hollingsworth was in the Pacific when the bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Thomas Tizzard says that his most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard to pin down. It could be the first time...

Joseph Daquana completed submarine training in New London [Annotator’s Note: New London, Connecticut]. During his...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

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