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Rufus Harris does not recall celebrating the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

After Orville Bethard was discharged he used his GI Bill benefits to take classes at Compton Junior College for a...

Stewart Bass and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 9 (VT-9)] attacked Japanese supply ships with bombs...

John Burr wrote letters to his wife. They would get mail sporadically. They wrote letters and would give them to the...

Otis Kight grew up near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and nearby Stone Mountain [Annotator's Note: Stone...

Richard O'Kane gave William Leibold a nice 35mm camera. O’Kane snuck it in the trunk of Leibold's car one day during a...

Wallace McKay was transferred to the USS Henry T. Allen (APA-15). On that ship, McKay became a signalman again. He...

Robert Perry was born in Ebenezer, Louisiana, near Crowley [Annotator's Note: Crowley, Louisiana], in November 1926. He...

As far as a specific routine, they knew what had to be done when they woke up in the morning. The crews were very...

Dale Peterson returned to the United States aboard his cruiser, the USS San Juan (CL-54). She was decommissioned in...

Cecil Ezell McLain was born in November 1921 in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up through the Great Depression in Robertsdale...

In 1954, John Kreutzberg was drafted once more, this time into the Army. He was married at the time, so his wife went...

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