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When Richard Bennett went for his military service physical, he was given his choice between the Army, the Navy and the...

Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

William Leibold never stopped believing that he would make it home to his wife. The reunion with his wife on his parent...

Harvey Mittleman [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was shipped from...

Raymond Hayes went into service in July 1947 [Annotator's Note: he corrects this later]. He got out in 1959. He had...

Floyd James Reissig was hit by shrapnel from one of his own guns. While they were firing, the shrapnel hit him, causing...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

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