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When the assignment at Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Indonesia] was completed, Mark Brannon and the USS Hutchins (DD-...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...

William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

Calvin Barrick grew up on a farm. He had four brothers and one sister but two of his brothers have died. Barrick was...

John "Jack" Raquepau was just bombing in the Gilbert [Annotator's Note: Gilbert Islands] and Marshall Islands [...

As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...

Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

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