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Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was excited about going into the Navy. He went to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego,...

When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

Thomas Tizzard was stationed on ships in the South Pacific. Supplies came from Australia and once could not contact the...

Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...

When Austin H. Kiplinger returned to civilian life, he had no secondary effects. He was fortunate it being a little...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was born in January 1927 in Orlando, Florida. He had two younger siblings. During the Great...

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

In the first days of June [Annotator's Note: June 1942], Donald Hoff and his fellow airmen were getting nervous,...

Vernon Micheel was born and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college in Ames [Annotator's Note: Ames, Iowa] and...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...

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