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

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

Leon Griffith had a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun] on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte...

Edmond Guidry was born in 1920 in Westwego, Louisiana. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

On 12 October [Annotator's Note: 12 October 1944], Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a pilot with Fighting...

James Roy Colquitt had his Navy boot camp training at San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. He was...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Richard Miralles accepted everything that came to him because he knew he could not change it. They did not talk about...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

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