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Harold Long was born in January 1926 in Lawrence, Kansas. He grew up in southern Illinois during the Great Depression...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Stewart Bass flew off the Lexington [Annotator's Note: USS Lexington (CV-16)] to the Japanese home islands over Tokyo...

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

Edmond Guidry was 900 miles south of Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] when a...

Ray Anthony saw the big band era subside with the influx of the rock and roll genre. Anthony seldom performs now....

Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...

Bruce McCormick was in the military for a long time. A lot of his friends who were soldiers in Korea [Annotator's Note...

The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alex Vraciu was...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior [Annotator's Note: of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 28 (MTB RON 28) aboard PT-381...

After returning to the USS Enterprise (CV-6), they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and his rear seat gunner John...

Benjamin Clark Amsden transitioned to flying the Corsair [Annotator's Note: Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft after...

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