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While Dennis Allen Andrews served on the USS Plunger (SS-179) and USS Plaice (SS-390) during World War 2, he...

On 16 April [Annotator's Note: 16 April 1945], the Third Fleet was off the coast of Japan and sent planes out to hit...

Allen Lamm enlisted in the Navy and did his basic training in Great Lakes, Illinois. The training was not very...

During the second Truk raid Alexander Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group...

Louis Andriano graduated high school at 17 [Annotator's Note: January 1944]. His father wanted him to work but he could...

George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

Burl Loving was born in January 1927 in Garden City, Kansas. In 1930, his family moved to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

J. W. Childs was born in Cisco, Texas. From a young age, however, he and his little sister lived with their parents in...

In Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Everett Hyland did hear rumors of going to war. When out on their two weeks at sea, and at...

When they [Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff and the rest of the strike group] arrived at the point where they [Annotator's...

After going aboard they were given some soap and a half a towel [Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey and many of the other...

Adolph William Amundson recalled that by the time he arrived at the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], the...

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