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Chester Hollingsworth was born on a farm in October 1917 near Greenville, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters....

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson enlisted in the Navy and was sent to a ship in the Hudson River to train on. He was supposed...

The first couple times Arthur Killam was depth charged it was a little hairy but he does not recall getting too upset...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13),...

When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell left the bigger ship that took him overseas, he patrolled mountainous islands and...

Wilbur Rogers' ship [Annotator's Note: USS Foote (DD-511)] and crew were preparing for the invasion of Japan, but the...

Jake Ussery was born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas which is a small town north of Little Rock. His mother's parents lived...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Barrick served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Tang (SS-306) and was aboard for that...

Walter Bud Gafford [Annotator's Note: while serving aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)] witnessed combat off Okinawa [...

Francis Bucher was on Adak [Annotator's Note: Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska] when the invasion of Kiska [...

From the Aleutians, Mark Brannon and the USS Hutchins (DD-746) went back to Hawaii then on to Port Moresby in Papua New...

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

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