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Jack Leaming and the crew of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) left Pearl Harbor and attacked the Marshall Islands in February...

Louis R. Lepore took a cruise to Washington D.C. [Annotator's Note: Washington, District of Columbia]. He saw the World...

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

Frank Pryor was well supplied on Iwo Jima. The SeaBees [Annotator's Note: members of US naval construction battalions]...

Jack Leaming and his SBD pilot had just completed their bombing run on Marcus Island when the antiaircraft fire became...

James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

While working in the photo lab [Annotator's Note: aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5)], William Roy had no...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

Benjamin Hagans remembers the officers’ mess had a menu. Hagans was with his brother, Bill, for three weeks. Then they...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Burrell received his orders to basic training on 22 December 1942]. Joseph Burrell had his...

In addition to his weapon, Philip Schweitzer carried two pouches. Because of his rank as a sergeant, Schweitzer carried...

Murphy Burke continued his training while he waited for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Yarnell (DD-541)] to be...

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