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Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

Allen Horton reported aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), and a fellow Princeton acquaintance helped him settle into...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Vernon Micheel was born and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college in Ames [Annotator's Note: Ames, Iowa] and...

George Culpepper's [Annotator's Note: as the communications officer aboard PC-1122] commanding officer on PC-1122,...

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

David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Taylor served in the Navy as a corpsman attached to Headquarters and Service Company, 7th...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

Randolph Daniel went to boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator’s Note: Naval Station Great Lakes near Waukegan,...

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