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Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

Jack Linscott was stationed in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California]. They left for Australia in...

Martin Carmody was raised in California and was a senior at San Jose State University. His family had lived there for...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13),...

At 11 years in the Navy, Randall Edwards decided to make a career of the military. In 1946, he had an unfortunate...

Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

When Orville Bethard graduated from high school he was 19 years old and eligible for the draft. He did not like the...

Raymond Hayes went into service in July 1947 [Annotator's Note: he corrects this later]. He got out in 1959. He had...

In the Spring of 1942, Benjamin Clark Amsden started pursuing going into Naval Aviation. He found out the eye exam was...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], F. Lincoln Grahlfs received orders to tow away the USS Hugh W. Hadley...

Frank Borrell thinks about the men he served with. They became like members of his family. Everyone tried to be friends...

In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...

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