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[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

John E. Johnson was born in Houston, Mississippi in December 1926, and lived there until he was six years old. During...

There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

On 7 December 1941, Alfred Raymond was sleeping and someone came and woke him up to tell him that the Japanese had...

Ray Felts married in late 1949 to a girl he met at church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He didn't have much trouble getting back...

Eugene Corson went to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22 June...

Jack Leaming and his pilot were taken to Yokohama. [Annotator's Note: Leaming was the rear gunner in the Douglas SDB...

Harvey Mittleman [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was shipped from...

Thomas Tizzard was assigned to the USS Denver (CL-58) and was interviewed by an officer asking what his previous jobs...

In the Spring of 1942, Benjamin Clark Amsden started pursuing going into Naval Aviation. He found out the eye exam was...

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