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The Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was out at sea on 7 December [Annotator's Note: for the...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

Martin Carmody was on Guadalcanal for two or three days. The USS Enterprise (CV-6) had gone to the harbor at Espiritu...

William Lee Barnes never had occasion to use the G.I. Bill. He had a job waiting for him after he took two weeks off...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

Jack Holder was born in December 1921 in his mother’s hometown of Gunter, Texas. His father was a World War 1 veteran,...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

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

Sharks began circling the group of survivors, and Cleatus Lebow said the predators were attacking men who broke away...

Rufus Harris and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Miami (CL-89)] would stop at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi...

Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

Richard H. Kerr was headed towards the Pacific Theater in World War 2 with an LCT [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft,...

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