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Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

While in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], Victor Yost helped clean the ship. When at sea, Yost...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

James D. Comeaux’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was watching the massacre of U.S. troops on Okinawa [...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

Joseph Brannan returned to Melville, Rhode Island as a PT boat instructor [Annotator's Note: at the Motor Torpedo Boat...

James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

Stewart Bass was aboard USS Yorktown (CV-10) when the Japanese kamikazes continuously attacked over the course of 51...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

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