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The ship would reposition at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands]. Occasionally, Japanese planes...

Lawrence Winnier did not stay in touch with anyone after the war. He has one grandson, three granddaughters, and two...

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

When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

Wallace Edward Spencer, originally Wallace Smigirow, was born in Woodside, New York in October 1925. He has one older...

They were escorting 1 of the carriers and their flight crew. Their flight crew got caught out at night. They attempted...

Robert Swan did not select going into patrol planes. Everybody asks for fighters when they go through flight school....

When Claude Taylor turned 18, he enlisted in the Navy. His father had been in the Army in France in World War 1. The...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

Marvin Tyson served because he would serve his country any time and was drafted. He doubts he would have served if not...

Jake Ussery boarded the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] in the United States and joined in operations...

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