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William “Bill” Knapp was part of the Okinawa invasion on Easter morning 1945 [Annotator’s Note: Knapp was a coxswain on...

Within a day of arriving at the submarine base James Allen was given orders to report to the USS Wahoo (SS-238). He...

Francis Bucher was born in October 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His was a friendly neighborhood where everybody knew...

Sterling Baker was on the invasion of Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands]. When he was in Leyte [...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...

While Dennis Allen Andrews served on the USS Plunger (SS-179) and USS Plaice (SS-390) during World War 2, he...

Louis Andriano graduated high school at 17 [Annotator's Note: January 1944]. His father wanted him to work but he could...

Joseph Brannan reached Tulagi on the USS Niagara (AGP-1) [Annotator's Note: the USS Niagara (PG-52) was redesignated...

Noah Lewis remembers the people on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] were friendly towards black people....

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Paul J. Frisco's first combat action aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) escorting the fast carriers during the invasion of...

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