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James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...

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

Jake Ussery was aboard the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] following the American recapture of the...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

When he was fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, Olaf Rose hated the enemy, but as the years have gone by, he admits...

Murphy Burke made good, lasting friendships while in the Navy, and when he got out, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings always had a soft spot for the Marblehead [Annotator's Note: USS Marblehead (CL-12)]. It...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Peter Newberg did not have much choice in abandoning ship [Annotator's Note: after the USS Yorktown (CV-5) was mortally...

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