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Robert Hammond was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois in the dead of winter for boot camp. He was prepared for the cold, but...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

In July 1946, Paul Ignatius was separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant in Los Angeles [Annotator’s Note:...

Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

Donald Hoff was regularly assigned to fly with Ensign Stone. Hoff was used to flying with him and felt like they were a...

After the war ended, William Beaman was sent back to San Francisco, California on the USS Flasher (SS-249), then...

Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

George Mouton was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1926. He was young during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Allen Lamm was concerned for his safety on Okinawa. He did not realize that the splatters in the water were coming from...

Aboard ship, Wahlen's platoon leader would talk to his men about what to expect when they landed [Annotators Note: on...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was born in Elgin, North Dakota in January 1926. His father had a farm, but they moved in 1941 to...

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