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After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

Austin H. Kiplinger took trips to Germany in 1932 and 1938. Allusions to the war effort were everywhere. In 1938, he...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

Running is in Ernest "Ernie" Andrus' nature. He has been a runner most of his life. He ran his first 200 mile relay...

Alfred Taddeo became an instructor at Melbourne, Florida where he met several former VF-10 [Annotator's Note: Fighting...

The first flight Jack Glass went on was a search mission during the later stage of the Eastern Solomons campaign. The...

Walter John Guyote cheated on the eye exam to get into the Navy. He was sent to San Diego, California for boot camp. He...

On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

Robert D. Shaner had some exciting times aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-475]. They had gotten back from...

Paul Sparacino was in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)] when Vietnam [Annotator's...

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