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After serving in the Navy for 20 years, Wallace Johnson worked for North American Aviation and NASA [Annotator’s Notes...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

Peter Newberg did not have much choice in abandoning ship [Annotator's Note: after the USS Yorktown (CV-5) was mortally...

When James McCorriston left the hospital, he was assigned to the USS Fall River (CA-131), then he left the Navy. He...

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

Melvin Munch was born in 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in the portion of the city that was referred to...

Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

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

Fred Bronfin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born to immigrant parents immediately after World...

Hunger and thirst tormented Cleatus Lebow and his fellow shipmates from the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) who were stranded...

Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

William Sturman's battalion was in Inchon [Annotator's Note: Inch'ŏn, Korea]. His skipper [Annotator's Note: nickname...

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