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Paul Sparacino was born in July 1943 in Simmesport, Louisiana. His father drove a log truck. They moved to Alexandria,...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Harold Ward has never seen any history on what happened to the Helena [Annotators Note: USS Helena (CL-50)], the...

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

William Leibold never stopped believing that he would make it home to his wife. The reunion with his wife on his parent...

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

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

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