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After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

Otis Kight grew up near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and nearby Stone Mountain [Annotator's Note: Stone...

Fred Bronfin was had mixed feelings about leaving the Navy. In the service everything was taken care of for him. In the...

Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

Wallace McKay was transferred to the USS Henry T. Allen (APA-15). On that ship, McKay became a signalman again. He...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] received news that his ship would take part in the...

Harold C. Cook felt he was only a part of the war when he served. They liked to make jokes about MacArthur [Annotator's...

James did not realize that he was shot right away. He knew he was hit but the pain did not register. He went down below...

Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

Charles Chatterton was relieved to be back in the United States. On his return, they stopped in Honolulu [Annotator's...

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