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By the night of 5 August [Annotator’s Note: 1945], Paul J. Murphy had been in the sea for five nights and four days [...

The invasion of Attu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Attu, Alaska, 11 to 30 May 1943] was made with fresh troops from the...

Wallace Spencer was in Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Naval Training Station Sampson in Sampson, New York] for a...

Joseph LaNier had no training or explanation concerning how to perform as a Seabee [Annotator’s Note: Seabee is a twist...

Philip Curran was in the Yellow Sea [Annotator's Note: sea located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula] for...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

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

Noah Lewis thinks the white servicemen were promoted to better positions than their black counterparts. He knows in the...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

Paul Sartori Jr. was proud of serving in the Navy. He felt good about doing something for his country. He served with...

Robert Masters was born in Akron, Ohio in August 1925. When he was five years old, the family moved to Santa Monica [...

Arthur Fishman had one sister growing up. His mother died when he was six years old. A few years later, his father...

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