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

James Warren David was assigned to an LSD [Annotator's Notes: Landing Ship, Dock] and shipped off to Korea and was part...

Paul Sparacino [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during Operation Dominic, series of...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

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

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Howard Robert Charles participated in the Battle of Sunda Strait [Annotator's Note: as a machine gunner aboard the USS...

Norman Elliott and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Pasadena (CL-65)] saw some action while in the Pacific. They had...

Ferrier was given a weekend pass and stayed at the Royal Hawaiian hotel. At the hotel Ferrier did not talk to many...

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