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Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

Years later Vejtasa asked Japanese veterans if they had thought about strafing the deck and they said no. Vejtasa would...

[Annotator's Note: Alfred Raymond Mosher served in the Navy as a hospital corpsman in the station hospital on the...

The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

Alfred Taddeo is from Portland, Oregon. While there with a group of classmates at the University of Portland Oregon [...

Joseph LaNier joined the United States Navy in February 1944. African-Americans prior to 1942 were not allowed to join...

Jack Leaming was launched off the deck of the Enterprise on the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...

For Clyde Barber’s second deployment, he returned to Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) stationed at Kaneohe Bay Naval Air...

O’Hearn “Duffy” Vincent Dufour joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1940] in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Denver (CL-58) at Bougainville, covering the landing troops. They would bombard the...

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