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Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

In mid 1942, Jack Leaming and approximately 60 other prisoners of war, POWs, were transferred to a camp in Osaka. The...

The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...

Joseph LaNier was 15 years old and working in a nightclub when an incident happened in Columbus [Annotator’s Note:...

Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

After he was discharged, Thomas Tizzard looked for a job. He worked in New Orleans, Louisiana as a conductor on a...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

James Oney was scared when bombs were falling [Annotator's Note: during air raids on Stirling Island, Treasury Islands...

Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

Frederick Grun was born in March 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children. His father was an...

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