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Paul J. Murphy got into the water which was covered with oil and black tar [Annotator’s Note: he had just abandoned the...

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

Hopkins was aboard the Hornet when they were under attack. It was quite an attack. The first few bombs knocked out the...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was on USS LST-124 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank] until just before the end of the war...

Donald Stratton is from Red Cloud, Nebraska. His family was farmers early on in their lives. Stratton had one sister...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] as a...

Carey Suratt was born in July 1926 in Dennison, Ohio. His father worked for the Pennsylvania railroad as a fireman. His...

Howard Robert Charles [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the other prisoners soon found their clothes were...

Charles Bruce was 17 years old when he drove a truck for work. He got a ticket for speeding. He had to pay 20 dollars....

Morton William Werner’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was on his way to Japan, but then was sent...

Returning to the Pacific on the USS Brown (DD-546), John Cassidy participated in the invasion of Okinawa. He was there...

Fred Bergeron was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in January 1923. Custom dictated that the mother would be taken care of...

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