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Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...

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

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

In the early 1930s when the Japanese invaded Manchuria then moved into China, Ralph Weymouth’s group was being pushed...

Coming back to the United States was kind of boring for Robert D. Shaner. They [Annotator's Note: Shaner and the crew...

John E. Johnson described accommodations on the APD [Annotator's Note: Johnson served aboard the high speed transport...

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

James Thomas Womack arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] around 1941. He was on patrol duty...

Vernon Micheel flew the second attack flight against the Japanese [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting Squadron 6...

George Joseph Bertucci went to San Diego, California for basic training. After three weeks, he went aboard the USS...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

On the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), Pete Brock saw combat in the late stages of the Okinawa campaign [Annotator’s...

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