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Donald H. "Don" Bee was born in September 1925 in Commodore, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Greensville,...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson was born in Bronson, Florida in December 1927. He had five brothers and sisters. His father, an...

Robert Brant and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Naval Construction Battalion] invaded Bougainville [Annotator's Note...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Patrick Zilliacus was born in May 1926 in Helsinki, Finland. Life growing up was fantastic. His parents divorced when...

Burl Loving did his Navy basic training at Great Lakes [Annotator’s Note: Naval Station Great Lakes near Chicago,...

The Saratoga [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3] was getting ready to leave San Diego for Pearl...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

After Lawrence Winnier left the Argonne [Annotator's Note: USS Argonne (AS-10)], he was sent to Schumacher, California...

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

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Van Wart brought...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

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