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Being a submariner prepared Billy Grieves for his career as a firefighter. After seeing the worst, everything else is...

Louis Andriano graduated high school at 17 [Annotator's Note: January 1944]. His father wanted him to work but he could...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

Rufus Harris does not recall celebrating the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...

Socrates Dendrinelis was in the radio shack [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Carina (AK-74)]. He could see the...

In March 1944, at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, Charles Chatterton was assigned to the USS LCI(L)-334 [Annotator'...

When Blanchard's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Franklin, CV-13] was attacked he didn't realize how close they were to...

Otis Kight grew up near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and nearby Stone Mountain [Annotator's Note: Stone...

Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

They went directly into Ormoc Bay [Annotator's Note: Philippines]. Once the troops landed the kamikazes started to...

Robert Perry was born in Ebenezer, Louisiana, near Crowley [Annotator's Note: Crowley, Louisiana], in November 1926. He...

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