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John Nicholas fought in World War 2 because the guys before him had signed up so he had to do so also. He had to fight...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

The cook [Annotator's Note: on the USS LCI(L)-1012] got sick, and one was needed. Harold Ronson put in for it as he had...

Patrick Zilliacus corresponded with his family. It was censored twice but he corresponded throughout the war with his...

William C. Ellzey was born in September 1922 in Agricola, Mississippi. The oldest of nine children, he grew up on a 40-...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson kept moving north until he made it to Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Vella Lavella,...

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

Paul Sartori Jr. was in the Philippines when the atomic bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was leaving Panama for the Pacific, his PT Boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo...

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