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Vernon Micheel met his future wife in June 1943 in Wildwood, New Jersey. They were married in October 1946. Micheel...

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

James Connelly made landings on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal Campaign, 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943;...

After the clean-up of Pearl Harbor, John Cassidy chose to stay in the Pacific on the USS Vincennes (CA-44) which...

After his induction in Little Rock [Annotator's Note: Little Rock, Arkansas], Carl Trim was sent to Farragut, Idaho for...

Pete Brock was discharged from the Navy in Seattle, Washington in June 1946 with the rating of signalman third class....

Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Stewart W. Robinson was born in March 1925 in Liverpool, Pennsylvania. One of 16 children, he grew up on a farm. Times...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: Shown had become a crewman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in 1939] headed...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

One night, Floyd James Reissig called general quarters while sailors were sleeping on the deck. There was an...

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