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

Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

Clyde Barber was born in May 1924 in Drennan, Colorado. Each of his five brothers and one sister were born in different...

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

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

Fulton Taylor used the GI Bill to help pay his tuition for college. He graduated from Louisiana State University in...

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

After getting back to the United States [Annotator’s Note: after surviving the sinking of the USS Preston (DD-379) in...

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