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[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

During his time on PT-171, Olaf Rose took instruction from veteran engineers, and gradually got comfortable with his...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

At 19 years of age, Murphy Burke witnessed the fight at Iwo Jima. He described the day as breaking grungy, with low...

Meda Royce Hall and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 68 (VC-68) aboard the USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)]...

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

Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

Sterling Baker was on the invasions of Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands] and Enewetok [...

After the war, Clyde Barber remained in the Navy as a member of a naval transport squadron, VR-8 (Air Transport...

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