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Shaner, Robert Prewar Life and Responsibility
Robert D. Shaner was born in February of 1924 in Porterville, California and grew up during the Depression [Annotator's...
Tanenbaum, Melvin The War Ends
Melvin S. Tanenbaum hated the Japanese during the war. They made sneak attacks with no warning. It was a blessing to...
Dean, Donald Early Life, the Draft and Enlistment
Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...
Barnes, Alvin Floating Mine and Returning Home
Alvin Barnes entered Tokyo Bay [Annotator's Note: Tokyo Bay, Japan] after the war. His ship [Annotator's Note: USS...
Welch, Richard Growing Up on a Farm
Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...
Spraker, Elmer From Okinawa to the Harbors of Japan
The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...
Hutchinson, Louis The Battle of Okinawa
Before the Marines landed on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) bombarded the...
Brannan, Joseph PT Boat Action in the Mediterranean
Joseph Brannan returned to Melville, Rhode Island as a PT boat instructor [Annotator's Note: at the Motor Torpedo Boat...
Heuer, Frank Preparing for Tarawa
In the fall of 1943, When Frank M. Heuer Sr.’s course at Hall-Scott Motor Car Company [Annotator’s Note: in Berkeley,...
Kellogg, Fermer Postwar and Reflections
Fermer Kellogg had problems with his arm after the war, but he still managed to take on various types of work like...
Owen, Jack War's End
In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...
Wellford, Harry Early Life and Navy Training
Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...

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