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

Paul Ignatius’ most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting through it, surviving and coming out to lead a...

William Sturman and a buddy liked the Navy and just picked it to join. He wanted to see the ocean. He was old enough to...

Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...

Hershel Hibbard recalled the process of refueling the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)]. Another ship...

Donald Dean had been impressed when he first saw the brand new ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Balduck (APD-132)]. The...

Louis B. Hutchinson was born in November 1925 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note...

Harlan Twible returned to the United States in November [Annotator's Note: Novemebr 1945]. He remained in the service...

Rufus Harris was born in 1923 in Macon, Georgia. He lived there for four years and then they moved to New Orleans [...

Horace Trahan was born in January 1927 in Maurice, Louisiana. He had one brother and two sisters. His father owned a...

[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA38...

John Cassidy majored in mining engineering during his first year at the University of Alabama, but he eventually...

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