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Coming home from Japan was a joyous time for Don Daniels. His brother was already out of the service. They tried to get...

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

Wicker was not fast enough so his buddy would help him swim along in the water [Annotators Note: during the attack on...

Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

The weight of Donald Campbell's job was such that he rarely had off-duty time. He was responsible for the division's...

Choosing to go in the Navy [Annotator's Note: in 1944] was natural for Philip Curran. He grew up on the water. His...

In some ways, Ira Schilling felt he grew up very quickly due to his experience serving in the US Marine Corps during...

Roy Boreen spent a year and a half as part of the USS Oklahoma's (BB-37) 3rd Division Deck Force. Every Friday was...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Sterling Cale was born in Macomb, Illinois in 1921. Shortly after birth, he went into an orphanage for four years....

Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

Susan Magnuson Devoe remembers being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

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