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Robert G. Aldous and his crew lost their radar operator. Their copilot went to get a suntan and went to sleep. He fell...

John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

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

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

After he returned to duty, Lloyd Dendy had a case come up where a member had a death in the family. The Red Cross is...

Once William Garbo returned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, he resumed command of his machine gun...

Robert Lowe was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was sent to Palmyra Atoll for two years of guard duty. They took a radar...

Chris Carawan was born in 1926 in Washington, North Carolina into a family of seagoing people. His father was a sea...

Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...

When readying for nuclear test, Paul Sparacino and the crew [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

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