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Connick's boat [Annotator's Note: an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel)] held roughly thirty-six men. Each boat...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

When Childers strapped in he said over the radio that it was his birthday and that he wanted to celebrate.Three of the...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Robert Templet took his boot camp training in San Diego. The days started early for him. During his first week in...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

William Leibold was topside with O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane had been the commanding...

Soon after the Battle of the Philippines, Murphy Burke remembers spending a week at one of the larger ports, Ulithi....

Robert Barnett was at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands] about ten days before the invasion of...

There was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Ferrier did not like the way they were awarding flight orders to the crewman. Ferrier made his boss well aware of that...

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