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Burl Loving was born in January 1927 in Garden City, Kansas. In 1930, his family moved to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

Noah Lewis remembers the people on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] were friendly towards black people....

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

Wilbur Rogers' discharge was based on the convenience of the government and was affected at New Orleans, Louisiana on...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Norman Sterrie finished flight training in the summer of 1940 [Annotator's Note: Sterrie had entered the Navy in...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Meda Royce Hall attended Aviation Ordnance School in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia], and graduated in...

Harold Joslin and his fellow prisoners of war tried to keep their humor up. There was a Japanese guard who marched them...

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