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William G. Roy is proud of his role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. He thinks that the...

Stinson was born in Columbia, Alabama. After he and his classmates graduated from high school in 1943 they joined the...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...

Thomas Crosby's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the end. His experience in the war gave him a great...

Samuel Ukrop experienced a lot of intense training for Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed...

Richard Bennett mentioned that one incident stands out as a proud moment. Out of the 15 PT boats in the squadron [...

Ray Gene Gresham digresses to mention that while he was at Camp Crowder, Missouri, he was serving in Company C, 2nd...

Charles Watkins Adair went into the infantry in the signal corps [Annotator's Note: US Army Signal Corps, after being...

Thomas Kolesa got married. He went to Edwardsville [Annotator's Note: Edwardsville, Illinois] and his mother was crying...

Paris Tognoli was born in December 1924 in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. They later...

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

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