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Louis Conter left the USS Arizona (BB-39) via a liberty boat after her fatal bombing. He boarded the boat near number...

Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

Jack Holder was ready to be discharged from the Navy because he had gotten married. He went to school and received a...

Jack Dye [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS LSM-232] landed at various islands both during the battles...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

Baptiste had a janitorial service. One of his clients was a doctor who stayed on Corregidor [Annotator's Note:...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...

In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...

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