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Robert Taylor went on a patrol on a training site on Upolu, Samoa. His unit [Annotator's Note: Taylor served in the...

Schneider recounts that after the Marshall Islands raid in early February 1942, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) participated...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs enlisted into the Navy in the fall of 1942 and was inducted on 5 October 1942. At that time, the...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

John Nicholas first experienced an aerial attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)] a few months...

John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...

Sam S. McKeel dropped out of high school at age 16 to enlist in the Navy during World War 2. He knew he was going to...

Connick recalls the atmosphere of New Orleans during the war. He remembers men being replaced by stars in the window [...

David Hanning was born in May 1927 in Saranac Lake, New York. His mother, a nurse from Montreal [Annotator's Note:...

David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

They [Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher and his rear seat gunner George Fergusson] were taken to a sick bay in the bow [...

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