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While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Louis Conter and the VP-11 [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 11] Catalinas [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY...

Ray Eshelman had been on USS LST-925 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts, before reporting aboard USS...

William O’Brien was on duty in the Philippines. They kept their equipment ready. The ammunition was ready to go on the...

Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

John E. Johnson fought in World War 2 because he had to. He was drafted. Johnson acknowledges the war changed his life...

Phoutrides took part in the Normandy invasion. He knew what was happening but couldn't understand the enormity of the...

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

Clayton Fisher spent the next two and a half years in the training command. Once, Fisher was chasing fighters and...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...

Victor K. Carman remembers the typhoon. It was significant. The Philippines got hit by a typhoon with winds of 190...

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