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Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

[Annotators Note: Charles Bishop served in the navy aboard the destroyer USS Cummings (DD-365) then later aboard the...

While on his cruiser [Annotator's Note: USS San Juan (CL-54)], Dale Peterson's favorite form of entertainment was...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

Robert Perry did his Navy boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. He was then sent to...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled picking up survivors from the USS Franklin (CV-13) during the kamikaze attacks off...

William Leibold wonders if the Tang [Annotator's Note: USS Tang (SS-306)] is still a tomb. The Tang was apparently...

William Roy had decided to do a documentary if there was a battle. He got permission to film the captain and the...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow did not see any combat [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] like his brothers did, so he...

Edwin Henlebin was born in 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri, and lived there his entire life, except for when he was in the...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

John W. Snyder was born in March 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, Snyder's family was poor. However, because...

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