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James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

Fred Bronfin adjusted easily to military life but felt he was losing time in his career. To differentiate between...

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

Ben Ray Bost loved getting Marines on board ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316], especially those from North...

Robert Addison was born in Akron, Ohio in December 1922. Growing up he was very athletic and played many different...

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

Harry A. Donovan received the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note: a Purple Heart Medal is award bestowed upon a United...

William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

Earnest then had to make a decision, he was already a 2nd lieutenant in the Army but he was not sure if he wanted to be...

Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...

James Gaffney reviews the crew and officers of the PT Boat he served on in World War II. Some were good and some not so...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] There was nothing...

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