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John Nicholas fought in World War 2 because the guys before him had signed up so he had to do so also. He had to fight...

Ray Felts went to Idaho for basic training, and hoped he would get to work on a submarine, but at six-foot-four his...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw a man who was captured after he got out of his airplane waving at the Americans [Annotator's...

Daniel J. Lawler was wounded [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II; 15...

Richard H. Kerr was headed towards the Pacific Theater in World War 2 with an LCT [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft,...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Robert Frederick Reed only flew one daylight mission while serving overseas, all the others were at night using...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

[Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody served in the Navy as a pilot flying Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers with Bombing...

Archibald Rackerby volunteered to become a Marine Raider. He was a corporal and was in charge of classifying incoming...

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