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William O’Brien remembers serving at the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...

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

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

John Kreutzberg was born in July 1927 and grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He lived with his parents and aunt. He...

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

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Samuel Goss boarded the USS Bladen [Annotator's Note: USS Bladen (APA-63)] as it entered into a trial period prior to...

Wesley Waggoner returned home and continued his military career. He spent time in the Navy reserves and trained with...

After leaving Pearl Harbor, William Roy and the rest of the crew of the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

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