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Wallace Spencer is honored that he was able to serve. He did his job and it was an honor to do it. His hat helped him...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

Martin Carmody was briefed that there were no available carriers for them to fly off of. The Saratoga [Annotator's Note...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

The worst duty for Vernon Micheel was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a Douglas SBD...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

Norman Elliott and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Pasadena (CL-65)] saw some action while in the Pacific. They had...

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

After the conclusion of World War 2, William Riggs' only thought upon arriving home was to seek out a job away from the...

Pete Brock was born in April 1926 in Columbia, South Carolina. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...

Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...

Clarence Robert Duff remembered that during World War 2, his ship rode out three typhoons. The last one was in December...

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