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After choosing the US Navy, Stanley John Niec attended boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: in...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

Robert Templet was aboard the USS Roxanne (AKA-37) when the Japanese surrendered. During the course of the war, the...

Patrick Zilliacus thinks that the variety of odd jobs he held before being drafted helped him in duties on a submarine...

The cook [Annotator's Note: on the USS LCI(L)-1012] got sick, and one was needed. Harold Ronson put in for it as he had...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

Harold Eugene "Hal" Joslin was born in 1918 in Port Angeles or Sequim, Washington. He was born and raised on a dairy...

Fred Bergeron was waiting for a battle like Midway. He was very upset at what had been happening to them. He saw the...

After the big battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Surigao Strait, 24 to 25 October 1944 in Surigao Strait, Philippines...

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