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Alois Kopp volunteered to go on the USS Houston (CA-30) in 1939 for deployment overseas. The ship was stationed in...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

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

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

Gene Alair was assigned to a Transport Division Staff, CTD8, as a flag secretary and navigator aboard the USS Astoria (...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

John Nicholas was born in Marysville, Michigan in December 1924. He grew up in Marysville with his half brother and...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

Jack Dunlavy was born In Avery, Mississippi in June 1925. It was a small town. His father was a millwright at the...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

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