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Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

Austin H. Kiplinger and his unit [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 66 (VC-66) flying from USS Nassau (CVE-16)] went...

In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

James Warren David was assigned to an LSD [Annotator's Notes: Landing Ship, Dock] and shipped off to Korea and was part...

Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...

Jack Leaming had a buddy nicknamed Ace who was a prisoner of war, POW, from the carrier Yorktown. [Annotator's Note: At...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...

Robert D. Shaner made a trip to the Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines aboard the USS LST-475...

Before that, while instructing in SB2As [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer light scout bomber], Clayton Fisher...

James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

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