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Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Earnest tried to get a lead on the cruiser so he could drop his torpedo [Annotators Note: after being hit during the...

James Allen was at Midway aboard the Sperry [Annotator's Note: USS Sperry (AS-12)] when the Wahoo [Annotator's Note:...

Donald Herbert Shown was with a doctor, chaplain and Marine captain who swam around trying to take care of the wounded...

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker went to India as a photo reconnaissance pilot.] India was damp and humid, but very...

Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

Leslie B. Mason, Junior was born in 1926 in Montevideo, Minnesota. He did not stay there long. His father worked as a...

Hugh Wingo was at Midway [Annotator’s Note: The Battle of Midway, 4 to 7 June 1942; Midway Island]. This was the next...

The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...

Wiley stayed on the Portland [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS Portland, CA-33] for 2 days and slept on the...

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