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When the ship he returned home aboard was approaching San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], James...

The guys at Midway knew that the Navy was out there but not where they were. Sumner Whitten was at Midway when an SBD [...

In 1943, Frank Pantuso reported to the local recruiting station on his 18th birthday and joined the Marine Corps. He...

When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

Thomas Joseph Lemme was born in January 1926 in Albany [Annotator's Note: Albany, New York]. He had two older brothers...

George Colburn shipped out on the USS Rochambeau (AP-63), which was the same ship that Jack Kennedy [Annotator’s Note:...

Chuck feels that a lot of veterans have embellished their prisoner of war experience. He felt as if it was not that bad...

Arthur Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 5 October 1945 during the Nimitz Day celebration in Washington D.C....

While Robert Frederick Reed was stationed in El Centro [Annotator’s Note: El Centro, California before being deployed...

World War 2 changed Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior's life by making him aware of America's significance in this...

Aboard ship, the head [Annotator's Note: naval slang for toilet or bathroom] was full. Nobody showed any fear...

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