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

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

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

John Cassidy served as an aide to an admiral during his tenure in the Pacific, and the two men got along well. Cassidy...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

The worst duty for Vernon Micheel was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a Douglas SBD...

While working in the photo lab [Annotator's Note: aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5)], William Roy had no...

Lewis S. Evans served as assistant harbor master for his community in Massachusetts after he retired. He answered the...

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...

Myron J. Carraway served in Hawaii until June 1942. He then sailed to the Aleutian Islands based out of Kodiak [...

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