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Buck Donaldson was involved in school. He would make the honor roll. He would participate in the plays. They moved to...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was receiving his equipment right before he was sent...

Louis Conter started 7 December 1941 aboard USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor. It was his practice to substitute for...

Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....

During one of his trips back to the United States Alex Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero that had been...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

Frederick Jenkins was in damage control in the machine shop where the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide...

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