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John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

David Harvey was born in September 1926. [Annotator's Note: Harvey says he was born "around here" but the town name is...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

Adolph William Amundson's mission on Iwo Jima, Japan was to pick up the wounded and fly them back to a hospital on Guam...

Astley Blackwell’s ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] was sunk on 25 October [Annotator's Note: 25...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

Lyle Bird remarks that World War 2 was a long time ago, but he feels honored to have been a part of it. He served...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

Back in the United States, the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) went into dry dock, and Lebow went to Texas on leave [Annotator...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

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