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Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

Robert Savage was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana in December 1924. He grew up in a duplex owned by his grandmother and...

William Currier [Annotator's Note: while serving as a radarman aboard the USS Hall (DD-583)] headed back to the United...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Frank Faust was born in January 1916 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father worked for...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

Floyd James Reissig was drafted in May 1944. He was allowed to choose his service after his physical. He was not...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was in New Caledonia when he received transfer orders from USS Patterson (DD-392) to an oil burning...

One of the new pilots from Vejtasa's group got lost during the battle. He tried to make it to Guadalcanal but couldn't...

The LST-700 [Annotator's Note: USS LST-700] eventually made it back to the Philippines. Carey Suratt needed repair...

Allen Horton reported aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), and a fellow Princeton acquaintance helped him settle into...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade does not know how World War 2 changed him. After he left the service, he wanted to go back to...

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