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Vejtasa thought that the training he received was great. They would train as individuals as well as a group. In...

William Roy [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) as the aircraft carrier's photographer] left Pearl Harbor...

William Beaman was 18 years old when he participated in his first submarine patrol in the Pacific, and he said he didn'...

Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

Salvador Perino's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)] was brought to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

When he was still 100 miles out from his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)], the primitive radar in...

Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...

James Ramage was not pleased with the results [Annotator's Note: the results of the US Navy's attack on the Japanese...

Ray Camp was in the South Pacific. He was assigned to VPB-121 [Annotator’s Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 121]. He was a...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...

Emmett Guderian's Navy career gave him all kinds of new experiences, from world travel to intense emotions. He...

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