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Samuel Goss boarded the USS Bladen [Annotator's Note: USS Bladen (APA-63)] as it entered into a trial period prior to...

Archie Kelley landed at Abemama [Annotator's Note: Abemama Atoll, Kiribati]. They were told there were Japanese...

Wiley was put into a shack and slept the night there. That night he met the Chief of the tribe and was taken to a...

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

Lowell Rodrigue and his crew [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] picked up some Marine troops and brought...

George Joseph Sullivan goes by "Joe Sullivan" because he has great relatives who were named Joe Sullivan, all the way...

Starnes has thought about the night the USS Boise ambushed the Tokyo Express many times. He had a sense of apprehension...

Robert Savage was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana in December 1924. He grew up in a duplex owned by his grandmother and...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

After Leyte, Harper Gruber's vessel [Annotator's Note: USS YMS-339] took part in the second invasion [Annotator's Note...

Hershel Hibbard was born in Rose Hill, Kansas in September 1925. His mother worked as a switchboard operator and his...

They got rid of the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] on Truk [Annotator's Note: Truk...

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