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He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...

Hugh Wingo attended boot camp for eight weeks. They got their first liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

Joseph Brannan had never ridden on a PT boat [Annotator's Note: Patrol Torpedo boat] prior to his assignment to his...

Gene Alair was born in February 1920 in Fargo, North Dakota. His mother was in the entertainment business, so they...

After being discharged from service in World War 2, James D. Comeaux adjusted easily to civilian life and attended...

Fred Bergeron was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in January 1923. Custom dictated that the mother would be taken care of...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

William Roy [Annotator's Note: as a member of the salvage crew on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 6 June 1942] witnessed the...

Harlan Twible may have had nightmares after the war but it was nothing he could not handle. He left active duty the...

Rudolph C. Miller loved the Marines aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Fond du Lac (APA-166)]. They were very...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...

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