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James Connelly got burned. They ran short of gasoline for flamethrowers. A small boat came back to get more. The LCM [...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

William Leibold found O'Kane [Annotator's Note: Richard H. "Dick" O'Kane, captain of the USS Tang (SS-306)] to be very...

Carey Suratt left the Navy when his enlistment time was completed. In 1950, someone recommended Suratt join a new Army...

James Allen crossed Captain Kennedy's [Annotator's Note: Lieutenant Commander Marvin Kennedy] path twice, much to his...

Milton Rackham was born in Riggs, Idaho in April 1925 and grew up in nearby Rigby. [Annotator’s Note: Internet...

Joseph Brannan was changed by the Second World War. He had started college prior to the war, but was not enthusiastic...

Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

When Claire Maddox went into the service [Annotator's Note: in the summer of 1943], he had the option to pick any of...

Robert Hammond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1926. His father was a postal worker and his mother a...

Ray Anthony was born in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania on 20 January 1922. He was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He left his...

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