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Archie Kelley landed at Abemama [Annotator's Note: Abemama Atoll, Kiribati]. They were told there were Japanese...

On 7 December 1941, Jack Holder was on duty at Ford Island, [Annotator’s Note: Ford Island, Hawaii]. His unit was in a...

Wiley stayed on the Portland [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS Portland, CA-33] for 2 days and slept on the...

When Orville Bethard graduated from high school he was 19 years old and eligible for the draft. He did not like the...

He was asleep in his bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, CA38] early in the morning of...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Socrates Dendrinelis was in the radio shack [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Carina (AK-74)]. He could see the...

Louis Andriano was discharged from the Navy in June 1946. He took advantage of the G.I. Bill to an extent. He went to a...

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