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The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

James Warren David recalled always having the supplies they needed while living on the island [Annotator's Note: on...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

James Paul Lynch had a wonderful experience on the Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)]. They had fine officers...

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

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

When Richard Thelen returned home, he served at the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station outside of Detroit [Annotator's Note:...

After discharge, Windom Joseph Burton briefly used the G.I Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

After completing the Navy basic training program, William Hill was enrolled in the University of Chicago [Annotator’s...

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

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

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