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Victor James Yost was born on a farm in Illinois in October 1920. His parents were farmers. Yost was one of eight...

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

Donald Hoff's plane was not bothered [Annotator's Note: by Japanese fighters during the second strike of the Battle of...

Frederick Ellis was born in Amite, Louisiana in October 1924. His father's business failed in the Great Depression and...

Fred Bronfin reported to Fort Schuyler in New York where he had a two month indoctrination. He was then sent to Norfolk...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

Harold C. Cook felt he was only a part of the war when he served. They liked to make jokes about MacArthur [Annotator's...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

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