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The closer Carey Suratt got to Japan, the more aggressive things became. On his second trip to Leyte, the 459 [...

While off the coast of Washington state, there were large logs floating in the water. Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade tried...

Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

James D. Comeaux was born in August 1926 in Crowley, Louisiana and grew up in nearby Egan, Louisiana. He did a lot of...

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez was clearing out a town [Annotator's Note: with the 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

Leon Griffith was in the Philippines and was hunting Japanese who were on a mountain and firing artillery shells at...

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