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Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Helena (CL-50) when it was hit by torpedoes ans sunk on 6 July 1943 [Annotator's Note:...

James Gaffney discusses transition back into civilian life and his home life with two new children following his return...

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was drafted into the armed forces and chose to serve in the Navy. He boarded a train and was...

Vejtasa thought that the training he received was great. They would train as individuals as well as a group. In...

After the war, Wiley did meet the island chief's grandson and granddaughter. The relatives of the chief came to the US...

Pete Brock was discharged from the Navy in Seattle, Washington in June 1946 with the rating of signalman third class....

Hugh Ettinger was born in May 1926 in Watertown, New York. His father worked as a civil engineer, and they lived on...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Hunger and thirst tormented Cleatus Lebow and his fellow shipmates from the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) who were stranded...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...

Buck Donaldson went to Portland to get ready to go to Manila, the Philippines. Before they got there, the Japanese...

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