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O'Callahan [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient US Navy Captain Joseph T. O'Callahan] was all over the place. He...

Edwin Henlebin commented on the ability of the Navy to work with the Army. He said that in a battle situation soldiers...

When the Japanese General Homma [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Army Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma] brought...

Sterling Cale was assigned to the 1st Marine Division right after Pearl Harbor. He did not have a proper Marine uniform...

James Oney was in Portland, Oregon after leaving his family farm in the middle of the summer [Annotator's Note: Summer...

Fred Gemmel's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)] was assisted into a port after sustaining damage [...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. War patrol became an everyday...

William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

[Annotator’s Note: This segment is a duplicate of the previous segment entitled “Married Life.”] Gerald Wayne Lux met...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

Francis "Frank" Borrell was born in Beacon, New York, 60 miles north of New York City and ten miles from West Point [...

After Okinawa, John Nicholas and the USS Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)] were sent to sweep for mines in...

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