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Blanchard was still feeling the effects of the smoke inhalation when he was in Honolulu. He dealt with this injury for...

Norman Hatch, along with a group of other servicemen, boarded a train for Washington DC on a Sunday morning. Most of...

Waldron was the commanding officer of Torpedo Squadron 8. He wanted things done his way and he wanted them done right....

James Bowie knew the war was still going on when he was going home. Many of the men had war souvenirs. They were told...

Harold Zeringer arrived at Pearl Harbor after convoy duty from the west coast. He saw the Arizona [Annotator's Note:...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was born in April 1923 in Visalia, California. During the Great Depression, his father worked for...

Ed Weber reported to Oceanside [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California]....

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

Stewart Bass was excited and nervous to fly his first combat mission. He soon calmed down, followed his training and...

Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the invasions of the Marshall and Gilbert...

The message Wesley Carroll has for future generations is to mind their momma and their daddy. And, he says, mommas and...

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