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Otis Kight was in flight school as the war was ending. He made it to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] as...

Arthur L. Eads met his wife not long after he returned home from World War 2. He married her in February 1946. He...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...

When Harold Long graduated from Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts], he was...

Wallace McKay's most memorable experience of the war was going to Japan. It was memorable because of how docile the...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

After World War 2, Sam S. McKeel was assigned as quartermaster on LST-492 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank]. He...

The Laffey was in a rough state. She had been hit a number of times from a number of direction. Everything from the...

Edmond Guidry came back [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] to the Philadelphia Navy Yard [Annotator's...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

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