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During the spring of 1943 in Jacksonville [Annotator’s Note: Jacksonville, Florida], James W. Metcalf and the other...

Robert S. Gibbs was shipped to Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines, aboard the USS Boston (CA-69)] in October...

Sherwin Lansing Eddy was born January 1924 in Corona, California. His mother passed away when he was seven years old,...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

All of the barnstormers had on the boots, leather jackets and goggles and all had a bottle of spirits in the back seat...

Edmund Aziz and his ship [Annotator’s Note: with the USS Reeves (DE-156), converted to an attacked transport as APD-52...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

Randall Edwards was born in July 1917 near Pine Bluff, Wyoming. His family lived on ranches in various parts of the...

Raymond Gimbut joined the crew of the Selfridge [Annotator's Note: USS Selfridge (DD-357)]. He thought it was a good...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs enlisted into the Navy in the fall of 1942 and was inducted on 5 October 1942. At that time, the...

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