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Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...

John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

K.D. Jones was Karr's pointer on the gun mount. Jones and Karr were able to get down and crawl out onto the deck. They...

Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] reminded Noah Lewis of Hawaii. It was hot all the time. On Guam, Lewis...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Rollins Rosenzweig and his fellow Navy airmen were told ahead of the attack that they would be going to the South China...

Walter Bud Gafford [Annotator's Note: while serving aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)] witnessed combat off Okinawa [...

Shortly after the attack on the ammunition ship at Darwin, Australia, Richard Micklich [Annotator’s Note: serving as a...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it was announced that the war was over. He...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior volunteered for quartermaster school in the Navy. He was advised to sail on as...

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