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Louis Conter left boot camp in San Diego, California with the knowledge that he was to be assigned to the battleship...

Sidney Grossman remembered the day when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

They [Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher and his rear seat gunner George Fergusson] were taken to a sick bay in the bow [...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Robert D. Shaner got off the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-475] and explored [Annotator's Note: after they landed...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

James Warren David recalled getting seasick occasionally, especially if the conditions were rough. After serving in the...

Bill Norberg took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

Joseph LaNier did not know what he would do after the service. He was reserve and not regular Army. Consequently, his...

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