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Richard Bennett mentioned that one incident stands out as a proud moment. Out of the 15 PT boats in the squadron [...

Philip Curran's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when they hit a typhoon outside of the Yellow Sea [...

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

Ferrier got to Pearl Harbor the day after the Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet CV-8, aircraft carrier] sailed. They...

Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

William Roy [Annotator's Note: as a member of the salvage crew on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 6 June 1942] witnessed the...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

Robert Brant and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Naval Construction Battalion] invaded Bougainville [Annotator's Note...

James Paul Lynch went out to sea as officer of the deck the first time [Annotator's Note: on the USS Snook (SS-279) on...

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