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Melvin S. Tanenbaum was born in 1923 in Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: Queens is one of the five boroughs in New...

Gene Alair did not find Navy life difficult. He really enjoyed it. After recieving his commission, he was assigned to...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] paid a visit to the Kwajalein Islands [Annotator's...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior served at many bases during the war [Annotator's Note: as a member of (MTB RON...

After his induction in Little Rock [Annotator's Note: Little Rock, Arkansas], Carl Trim was sent to Farragut, Idaho for...

Stewart W. Robinson was born in March 1925 in Liverpool, Pennsylvania. One of 16 children, he grew up on a farm. Times...

One night, Floyd James Reissig called general quarters while sailors were sleeping on the deck. There was an...

Leon Griffith had a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun] on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte...

Mark Maynard trained new submariners at New London before being assigned to a new submarine. He was responsible to...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Robert Taylor arrived in Samoa in April 1942. The Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] campaign...

Eugene Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos...

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