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After Reaching Japan, Gerald Wayne Lux and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)] escorted captured...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

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

After discharge, Windom Joseph Burton briefly used the G.I Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

While Carl Rieman was off of Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], the USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)...

Starnes has thought about the night the USS Boise ambushed the Tokyo Express many times. He had a sense of apprehension...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

Between his first and second patrols Robert Dickinson was on the island of Hawaii for rest and relaxation. A relief...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

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