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After Orville Bethard went aboard ship [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] they went to Australia where...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

William Sturman and a buddy liked the Navy and just picked it to join. He wanted to see the ocean. He was old enough to...

On 16 April [Annotator's Note: 16 April 1945], the Third Fleet was off the coast of Japan and sent planes out to hit...

Olaf Rose became acquainted with, and courted, his future wife by mail from the Pacific. When he came home on a 30 day...

While Dennis Allen Andrews served on the USS Plunger (SS-179) and USS Plaice (SS-390) during World War 2, he...

The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Stewart Bass was trained to be a naval aviator. The first months involved college type training at St. Mary's College...

Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

Arles E. Cole left Pearl Harbor the next morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (...

Edward Chinnis was ready to go home after the war but he did have a lot of fun in the Navy. After leaving the Navy, he...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

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