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After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

O'Callahan [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient US Navy Captain Joseph T. O'Callahan] was all over the place. He...

Walter Nelson used to fly out into the fog near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Sometimes he flew underneath the Bay...

Lowell Rodrigue had many dreams about World War 2 and cannot watch movies related to the war. He has been clinically...

While preparing to graduate from high school, Charles “Chuck” Franzke was encouraged by his father to take a test to...

Austin H. Kiplinger experienced friendly fire in the Fall of 1944 [Annotator's Note: as a pilot with Composite...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

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

After boot camp, Norman Elliott was assigned to a newly-commissioned ship, the USS Pasadena (CL-65). From the Boston...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

After Hershel Hibbard was discharged from the Navy, he completed high school and went to college for some time on the G...

Raymond “Ray” Parrotta was assigned to LST-357 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in May [Annotator's Note: May...

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