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Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...

After the attack on 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Cass...

In the fall of 1943, When Frank M. Heuer Sr.’s course at Hall-Scott Motor Car Company [Annotator’s Note: in Berkeley,...

The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...

Alfred Taddeo became an instructor at Melbourne, Florida where he met several former VF-10 [Annotator's Note: Fighting...

Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

James Warren David remarked how he missed eating fresh eggs, roast beef, gravy, seafood, and cous-cous, and other Cajun...

Paul Sparacino's father was in the Army [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] but did not really talk about it....

James Gaffney reviews the crew and officers of the PT Boat he served on in World War II. Some were good and some not so...

After Okinawa, John Nicholas and the USS Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)] were sent to sweep for mines in...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

Frank George Memory was a crewman on a submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Gato (SS-212)]. The boat was about 300 feet...

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