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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...

Randall Edwards retired from the Navy and got a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. In...

When Robert Freligh got out of the navy he went back to school at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. They had to go to...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs transferred back to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. The seven or eight tugs...

Dale Peterson returned to the United States aboard his cruiser, the USS San Juan (CL-54). She was decommissioned in...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs partially understood what Operation Crossroads [Annotator's Note: a pair of nuclear weapons tests...

Dale Peterson had no problem transitioning back to civilian life after his discharge. His most memorable experience was...

Richard Miralles left the squadron and went aboard the ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75)] as a radioman...

The USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) sailed among several Pacific Islands, and Elmer Spraker admitted that he was a little...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

One day, they [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] loaded Alfred Raymond Mosher and others onto an inland sea ferry and...

Sterling Cale was assigned to recover the dead from the Arizona [Annotator's Note: USS Arizona (BB-39)] after the...

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