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Carl Trim was born in Greenville, Mississippi in September 1926. His parents divorced soon after and Trim and his...

Donald Herbert Shown joined the Navy and completed boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] in...

After enlisting in the Navy, John St. Germain had his boot camp training in Farragut, Idaho [Annotator’s Note: Farragut...

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

Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was on scouting and...

Karr believed that Admiral Becton [Annotator's Note: F. Julian Becton was the Commander of the Laffey] was a very, very...

In June 1947 Walter Bank went from Japan to the United States and joined the Navy reserves in New York for the benefits...

Leon Griffith was on Dinagat Island [Annotator's Note: Dinagat Island, Philippines] and the Japanese sent a barge of...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

Claire Maddox went ashore [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, after the Battle of Eniwetok, 17 to 23 February...

Norman Kleiss knew Peter Gaido pretty well. When Kleiss was about to take off for his first carrier landing he was...

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