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World War 2 made Dennis Allen Andrews grow up. He enjoyed his Navy career and never regretted serving. He received...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

George Hamilton was born in April 1922 in West Monroe, Louisiana. Hamilton lived in five states before he was six years...

Allen Lamm returned to the United States from his duty protecting convoys on a patrol craft [Annotator's Note: Lamm had...

William Roy had served in Battleship Division 5 in the Atlantic on the battleship Arkansas [Annotator's Note: USS...

The first and only time Raymond Bailey ever came under attack was on 19 March 1945. They were 50 miles off the coast of...

Robert Brant and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Naval Construction Battalion] invaded Bougainville [Annotator's Note...

Norman Kleiss went to the ready room. The weather was very cloudy with just a few patches of open sky. A Japanese plane...

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

Rudolph C. Miller loved the Marines aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Fond du Lac (APA-166)]. They were very...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

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