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In May 1943, Paul Lawrence had technically been the Navy for one year. While at school, he waited tables. Lawrence was...

Edmond Guidry came back [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] to the Philadelphia Navy Yard [Annotator's...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

[Annotator's Note: Patrick Zilliacus emigrated to the United States from Finland with his mother and brother.] They...

Bill Norberg was born in November 1922 in Lemington, Wisconsin. When Norberg was five or six years old, his family...

Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

Francis Borrell was woken up early one morning and was told about the Japanese surrendering. Everyone was celebrating,...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Helena (CL-50) when it was hit by torpedoes ans sunk on 6 July 1943 [Annotator's Note:...

After a 24 hour leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Donald Campbell reported to...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior served at many bases during the war [Annotator's Note: as a member of (MTB RON...

Besides the atomic tests, F. Lincoln Grahlfs found other work to do while at Bikini Atoll [Annotator's Note: Bikini...

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