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The morning after Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive...

Gerald Wayne Lux met his wife Alice at a dance during college. [Annotator’s Note: Alice Lux participates in this...

Sterling Baker was training in the Chesapeake Bay when he learned his unit had gone on leave and he did not get to. He...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] saw kamikazes [Annotator's...

Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

William Lee Barnes never had occasion to use the G.I. Bill. He had a job waiting for him after he took two weeks off...

After the war was over, three envoys [Annotator's Note: from the government of Japan] were sent to Jack Dunlavy's ship...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson was born in Bronson, Florida in December 1927. He had five brothers and sisters. His father, an...

Joseph Townsend started to lose his teeth in 1955. The dentist told him that all his teeth were cracked at the ridge....

Martin Carmody was on Guadalcanal for two or three days. The USS Enterprise (CV-6) had gone to the harbor at Espiritu...

Robert L. Rorschach was a member of the radar crew on the Pickaway [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] which was...

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