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Richard Bennett described the PT-470 as being armed with a thunderbolt, which is a 37mm and a 20mm cannon mounted...

During George Vincent Ross's first night there [Annotator's Note: on Guam, mariana Islands], Marines were killed...

While preparing the West Virginia [Annotator's Note: the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] to go into drydock, Archie Kelley...

Merrill was returning from a search mission just as the Doolittle Raiders were taking off from the Hornet [Annotator's...

James Franklin Young and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

While he trained at Fort Slocum in New Rochelle, New York, Armando Galella could go home every weekend. After about a...

Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

On the way out of the United States, Joseph F. McGee Junior reunited with his old high school football coach in Hawaii...

In the spring of 1946, Hugh Ettinger was stationed at Rongerik Atoll [Annotator’s Note: Rongerik Atoll, Marshall...

Paul Amrod arrived on the southern beaches of Okinawa to aggressive Japanese artillery fire. There was still heavy...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

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