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Herbert Fontenot joined the Navy because it was the only branch that would accept him at 16 years of age. He loved his...

Fred Arthur Balfour went into service in 1944. He went to Electrician Mate's school in Bainbridge, New York. They...

Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Jack Raskoph was transferred to Pier 92 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York], where people were...

David Foerster got his wings at Pensacola [Annotator's Note: Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida]. He went to...

Edward Dunne and the men [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS LST-53] were told what was going to happen [Annotator's...

Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

Edward Thomas Toole was born in 1925 in Millen, Georgia. He had four brothers and one sister. He was the youngest boy,...

Charles Taylor's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was able to take out a German submarine. He saw...

William Cassady’s ship [Annotator’s Note: the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] did not have a lot of contact with the...

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