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

James Ramage was at Pearl Harbor when the Battle of Midway took place. He was not aboard ship at the time. The...

Robert Taylor arrived in Samoa in April 1942. The Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] campaign...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

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

James W. Metcalf was assigned as turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). The...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

The Laffey was in a rough state. She had been hit a number of times from a number of direction. Everything from the...

Ben Ray Bost loved getting Marines on board ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316], especially those from North...

Robert Templet took his boot camp training in San Diego. The days started early for him. During his first week in...

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