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On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

On his first tour, Feightner was officially credited with 4 kills but he knows he shot down 12. Feightner shot down 31...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Alfred Rodrigues wanted to be an engineer in the Navy. He found that the engine room was very hot and he passed out in...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

James Warren David believed that World War 2 was a patriotic war and people were very positive at the time. The war...

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

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

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

Adolfo V. Celaya was taken aboard the Basset [Annotator’s Note: USS Bassett (APD-73), which rescued 154 survivors of...

Following Navy tradition, Harlan Twible was the last person to be pulled out of the water. He was picked up by the...

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