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Gene Alair received some schooling at government expense back when he was married. He had been sent back to Harvard...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt's most memorable experience was 7 April [Annotator's Note: 7 April 1945, during Battle of Okinawa...

William “Bill” Knapp learned how tenuous life is and how men can hate each other during the Second World War. Hating is...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Leon Griffith was in the Philippines and was hunting Japanese who were on a mountain and firing artillery shells at...

[Annotator's Note: Patrick Zilliacus emigrated to the United States from Finland with his mother and brother.] They...

Patrick Zilliacus worked in a factory near Washington, D.C. for Engineering and Research Corporation [Annotator's Note...

Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

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