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Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...

After he returned to the United States, Robert Lents took a test to go to officers' school, but after he passed, he...

Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

To Jack Glass, Jig Dog [Annotator's Note: later Rear Admiral James D. Ramage] had nerves of steel. He was totally in...

In late 1945, the USS Sagittarius (AKN-2) returned to Norfolk, Virginia and Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the ship in...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

Hopkins was the 33rd plane to take off. It was the 1st time that Hopkins took off carrying a live bomb. After he took...

Joseph Daquana completed submarine training in New London [Annotator’s Note: New London, Connecticut]. During his...

Victor K. Carman remembers the typhoon. It was significant. The Philippines got hit by a typhoon with winds of 190...

Howard Robert Charles was inducted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in June 1940] in San Diego [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

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