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William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. War patrol became an everyday...

James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

Melvin Munch was born in 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in the portion of the city that was referred to...

Harold Buell is proud to have been a dive bomber pilot. He was recalled from the United States to help a squadron that...

John "Jack" Raquepau went to get his harness fit and there were enlisted people living on that deck. They had about...

Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

After his Navy training, George Hamilton was assigned to the USS King (DD-242) and spent 16 months aboard her in the...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

After Gerald Wayne Lux was in boot camp [Annotator’s Note: in Farragut Naval Training Station near Bayview, Idaho in...

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