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As far as a specific routine, they knew what had to be done when they woke up in the morning. The crews were very...

Jack Pierce had a good job offer on the West Coast. He tried to get discharged there, but they would not do it. He...

Randall Edwards retired from the Navy and got a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. In...

Randolph Daniel landed on Wake Island after the bombs dropped on Japan in August [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

James Connelly got burned. They ran short of gasoline for flamethrowers. A small boat came back to get more. The LCM [...

Paul Sartori Jr. was in the Philippines when the atomic bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

They went to the South Pacific to the Solomons [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. The ship was pretty crowded.At Mare...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] Hall and his squadron [...

During the spring of 1943 in Jacksonville [Annotator’s Note: Jacksonville, Florida], James W. Metcalf and the other...

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