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Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...

Pete Brock was born in April 1926 in Columbia, South Carolina. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...

Thomas Tizzard decided to separate having survived two ships being torpedoed. He had had enough combat. Once on Guam,...

Before that, while instructing in SB2As [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer light scout bomber], Clayton Fisher...

Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...

Ray Eshelman was never interested in a military career. He had a couple of choices at discharge. He could join the...

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

After liberation, Robert Lents was flown to Calcutta, India where he spent six weeks in a hospital. At the time he was...

Myron J. Carraway served in Hawaii until June 1942. He then sailed to the Aleutian Islands based out of Kodiak [...

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

Warren Huggins was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma in August 1926. He grew up on a farm. It was hard during the...

James Allen was 16 years old in the spring of 1942 and a junior in high when he decided to join the Navy. In March he...

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