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[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Robert Lowe says war has its sadness. So many lost. It is always good to find some humor in a situation. That is what...

Louis Burg initially wanted to fly planes in the military, but his family did not want him to. His mother tore up his...

James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...

Wiley relates that at the time of the hit and run carrier raids, they had more aircrew than airplanes. Being a new...

William Lansford served as a machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Company E, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the submarine tender, USS Holland (AS-3), as a replacement radio man. Their main...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

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