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Frank George Memory worked mainly with the officers [Annotator’s Note: Memory was assistant navigator aboard the USS...

Blanchard was still feeling the effects of the smoke inhalation when he was in Honolulu. He dealt with this injury for...

Vernon Micheel was born and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college in Ames [Annotator's Note: Ames, Iowa] and...

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

At the end of the war, James Thomas Womack was in the process of being transferred off the USS Rehobath (AVP-50) to...

Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

The day the affair took place [Annotator's Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19-20 June 1944] they had not had...

At 19 years of age, Murphy Burke witnessed the fight at Iwo Jima. He described the day as breaking grungy, with low...

John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

Floyd James Reissig sailed around Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] towards Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note...

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