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Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

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

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

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

In July 1946, Paul Ignatius was separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant in Los Angeles [Annotator’s Note:...

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

William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was with the Asiatic Fleet [Annotator's Note: United States Asiatic Fleet, 1902 to 1942]....

William “Bill” Knapp learned how tenuous life is and how men can hate each other during the Second World War. Hating is...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

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

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