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Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

James Gaffney got into trouble in Cartagena [Annotator’s Note: Cartagena, Colombia]. Some of the crew was driven in a...

Harold Buell was involved in a carrier versus carrier battle in the Eastern Solomon Islands. Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

After the war, Robert S. Gibbs told his boss he was getting married, and he asked for a raise. His pay went up to 200...

Eugene Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos...

As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

John "Jack" Raquepau went to get his harness fit and there were enlisted people living on that deck. They had about...

Carl Rieman keeps up with a few of the surviving member of his squadron [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 94 (VC-94...

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

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