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Jack Dunlavy came back for Navy Day [Annotator's Note: 27 October 1945]. He thought he wanted to stay in the Navy but...

Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

Archie Kelley had done very well in high school and had no academic problems at all [Annotator's Note: while attending...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

After his Navy training, George Hamilton was assigned to the USS King (DD-242) and spent 16 months aboard her in the...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

After the war, Robert L. Rorschach stayed on his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] until a replacement...

The Japanese left so the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] secured from general quarters. Orville...

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

Stewart Bass was aboard USS Yorktown (CV-10) when the Japanese kamikazes continuously attacked over the course of 51...

Donald Stratton went aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona (BB-39) put the Missouri to shame...

While in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], Victor Yost helped clean the ship. When at sea, Yost...

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