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The first thing they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and his rear seat gunner John Liska] needed was water. Behind...

James Warren David was assigned to an LSD [Annotator's Notes: Landing Ship, Dock] and shipped off to Korea and was part...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

While off Okinawa, the USS Wisconsin [Annotator’s Note: USS Wisconsin BB-64] picked up some British POWs, which were...

When Edmund Aziz was assigned to a ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156), later converted to attack transport (...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

James W. Metcalf was assigned as a turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). When...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was born in January 1927 in Orlando, Florida. He had two younger siblings. During the Great...

Jack Thornhill was discharged on 15 December 1945 in New Orleans. After being discharged, he went back to Alexandria [...

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

At the end of January [Annotator's Note: January 1945] in Leyte Gulf, Frederick Grun had his first experience with...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy as an Electricians Mate aboard submarines. After the war he was...

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