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Harold C. Cook entered the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Rufus Harris went to Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for one day. On his last trip, he had just gotten married...

The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alexander Vraciu was...

Wilbur Rogers said that everything he did [Annotator's Note: during his time in the US Navy] was before he was 21 years...

The most significant thing to occur during the Battle of Midway that allowed for American victory is up for debate....

Wallace McKay was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he joined the USS Pollux (...

John Burr remembers they went into the Sea of Japan as a group of nine submarines. They were surprised to see the...

After graduating from Navy training, Sam S. McKeel was assigned to LST-579 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] and...

Rollins Rosenzweig had a rough boot camp experience in San Diego. He did not complain but rather took it as it came. It...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

They started taking off the most severely wounded. Another APD [Annotator's Note: a destroyer or destroyer escort...

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