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

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....

Randolph Daniel was born in Marshall County, Alabama in September 1926. He saw hard times in the Depression [Annotator'...

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

Noah Lewis thinks the white servicemen were promoted to better positions than their black counterparts. He knows in the...

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

Philip Curran and his family talked about the impending war developments all the time. His grandfather was an avid...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell first went to Cuba before heading to the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: Panama]. While...

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

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

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

When Edmund Aziz was assigned to a ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156)] and he installed a public address...

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