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[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

Shortly after Frederick Ellis reached Japan and the point system was in place for sending them home. The points got...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Jack Holder was ready to be discharged from the Navy because he had gotten married. He went to school and received a...

One day, Jack Yusen heard his name called and he was ordered to report to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). Yusen and...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

The USS New Orleans [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS New Orleans, CA32] was a sister ship to the San...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

Fred L. Keller, Jr. helped load bombs on torpedo planes, TBMs [Annotator's Note: Keller served as an ordnanceman aboard...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They went to New...

Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

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

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