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Mitchell Zimmer and the USS Snapper (SS-185) had multiple war patrols while using faulty torpedoes. Most of their...

Walter Bud Gafford feels many young people do not know about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Noah Lewis remembers the people on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] were friendly towards black people....

George Mouton's oldest brother was drafted. The second oldest brother was in submarines. The third brother was in the...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson's [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285)] second patrol scored six hits, severely...

John Caraway stayed in the reserves and was called up when the Korean War broke out. In October 1950, he shipped out of...

Paul Sartori Jr. was in the Philippines when the atomic bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

Robert Dickinson's training took place on one of the old S-boats. [Annotator's Note: The United States' S-class...

Marvin Tyson went to college under the G.I. Bill at New York University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York]. He...

Norman Sterrie finished flight training in the summer of 1940 [Annotator's Note: Sterrie had entered the Navy in...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

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