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Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

Joseph Brannan was based for a time in Leghorn, Italy as the city was called in English. It is referred to as Livorno...

Dale Peterson volunteered for the Navy and was sent for training at the Farragut Naval Training Center in Idaho. He...

Yellin taxied and saw mounds of Japanese bodies [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima]. Bulldozers were pushing the bodies...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

In April 1942, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned as the Electrician's Mate 3rd Class to the USS Plunger (SS-179). On...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was in engineering school when the Army decided to cancel the program. He was sent to...

Baptiste went to the Customs House [Annotators Note: in New Orleans] on 5 February 1938 where he was selected with 6...

Thomas Lusco Sr. remembers that at night, there were dogfights between the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51...

Carroll George enlisted in the Coast Guard because it is always looking out for the welfare of others. It saves lives...

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