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Wallace McKay left high school in 1943 and enlisted in the Navy. His enlistment was to end on his 21st birthday. His...

On his first tour, Feightner was officially credited with 4 kills but he knows he shot down 12. Feightner shot down 31...

Paul J. Murphy was born in Chillicothe, Missouri. He graduated from high school in 1943 and was immediately drafted...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...

Vejtasa thought that the training he received was great. They would train as individuals as well as a group. In...

After the war, Wiley did meet the island chief's grandson and granddaughter. The relatives of the chief came to the US...

Sterling Cale was assigned to the 1st Marine Division right after Pearl Harbor. He did not have a proper Marine uniform...

John Gehrett was sent to a Navy supply school in conjunction with Harvard Business School [Annotator's Note: at Harvard...

George Culpepper was in Farragut, Idaho for school for about three months [Annotator's Note: after enlisting in the...

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