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Within a day of arriving at the submarine base James Allen was given orders to report to the USS Wahoo (SS-238). He...

Norman Hatch graduated from high school when he was 17 years old. He grew up in both Boston, Massachusetts and...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

After Willie D. Knippers spent a year in Hawaii, he was shipped to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] where...

After two years in the Army, Paul Kerchum was discharged, but re-enlisted for another overseas deployment. His second...

John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was the historian for the unit [Annotator's Note: Goodwin was a member of the I...

Warren Huggins left San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and headed for Manila [Annotator’s Note...

Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

Archibald Boyd Rackerby was born in July 1920 in Washington, D.C. because his mother and her family were Washingtonians...

Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...

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