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Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

Everywhere that Frederick Ellis went there was an officer's club. The enlisted men never got that. Every once in a...

Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch...

After the war, Robert Perry found employment as a painter and as a lumber yard worker. He never used the G.I. Bill [...

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

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...

Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...

Raymond “Ray” Parrotta was assigned to LST-357 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in May [Annotator's Note: May...

After finishing his training, John Snyder was assigned to the USS Harry Lee (APA-10), which transported troops to North...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

Wiley noted that there were no other survivors of his plane. His wingman returned to the Enterprise [Annotator's Note:...

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

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