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One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Frederick Haack was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York in 1920] and grew up in Wyoming where...

After he ate breakfast Rogers went up to the radio system that was set up on the apron at the airport. They moved the...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was a Private First Class [Annotator's Note: while serving with the I...

James Paul Lynch's skipper [Annotator's Note: his captain, aboard the USS Snook (SS-279)], Chuck Triebel [Annotator's...

William Douglas Lansford was born in 1922 in Los Angeles. His father was an Anglo from Texas and his mother was a...

Sharks began circling the group of survivors, and Cleatus Lebow said the predators were attacking men who broke away...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] returned to Bremerton, Washington via Pearl Harbor [...

James J. Hill flew with VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211)] as the war ended. He learned...

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