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Paul J. Frisco served aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) during the ship's entire wartime cruise. The ship was the fourth...

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

George Joseph Sullivan goes by "Joe Sullivan" because he has great relatives who were named Joe Sullivan, all the way...

While the ships were circling, Hershel Williams had to use the bathroom, which was essentially a pump that circulated...

Norman Elliott was born in November 1926 and raised in East Hartford, Connecticut. He had an older brother. Their...

In 1953 Thomas Crosby enlisted in the Navy. He was competing as a diver for the University of Hawaii and attending...

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...

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

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], John Edward...

The US Navy had planes ready to help out at Wake Island but the admiral in charge figured that it was going to be too...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

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