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Stewart Bass flew a TBM Avenger [Annotator's Note: Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber] during the Second World War. He...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Donald Herbert Shown and the Indianapolis [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] were in the Aleutians at the...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Martin Suter went to fighter school and was called back to go to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953] in...

Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...

John Kreutzberg was born in July 1927 and grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He lived with his parents and aunt. He...

Clarence Robert Duff remembered that during World War 2, his ship rode out three typhoons. The last one was in December...

Otis Kight's squadron, VF-42 [Annotator's Note: Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42), USS Yorktown (CV-5)] had the bulk of the...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

Bruce McCormick was in Richmond, Virginia. They had to see if they were qualified medical-wise [Annotator's Note: for...

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