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Vejtasa had hit the carrier he had made a run on. Fighting 42 was aboard the Yorktown and was commanded by Jimmy...

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

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

Howard Robert Charles was inducted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in June 1940] in San Diego [Annotator's...

James Roy Colquitt had his Navy boot camp training at San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. He was...

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

Robert Templet took his boot camp training in San Diego. The days started early for him. During his first week in...

Vernon Micheel met his future wife in June 1943 in Wildwood, New Jersey. They were married in October 1946. Micheel...

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

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

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