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Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...

Burl Loving was ordered to report to the 317 [Annotator’s Note: USS YMS-317 minesweeper] which was a 130-foot-long,...

Lowell Rodrigue had many dreams about World War 2 and cannot watch movies related to the war. He has been clinically...

Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...

After the war, Richard H. Kerr enlisted into the regular Navy and remained in service for 30 years. His first...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Gene Alair did not find Navy life difficult. He really enjoyed it. After recieving his commission, he was assigned to...

William O’Brien and fellow sailors played cards or slept when they were not working. He had to take classes to get a...

Sam L. Miller was born in September 1926 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was an only child because his mother could...

After Hershel Hibbard was discharged from the Navy, he completed high school and went to college for some time on the G...

Archie Kelley admired Rickover [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover; nicknamed Father of the Nuclear...

A regular day for Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was to keep the transmitters going...

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