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While working in the photo lab [Annotator's Note: aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5)], William Roy had no...

While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart. When he told Mangrum that...

Rudolph C. Miller was born in 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother took him to Chicago [Annotator's Note:...

When David Thomason was at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

George Mouton went to San Pedro, California, and reported aboard the USS Bosque (APA-135). From there he went to Pearl...

Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...

The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alexander Vraciu was...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was a Navy Armed Guard and guarded US Merchant Marine ships during World War 2....

Jack Leaming had a buddy nicknamed Ace who was a prisoner of war, POW, from the carrier Yorktown. [Annotator's Note: At...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

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