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David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

Hugh Wingo was shipped to Tokyo, Japan. The carrier was in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] picking...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw his first action [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11)], when a...

Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was a Navy Armed Guard and guarded US Merchant Marine ships during World War 2....

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

Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

Claude Bufford Shaw didn't come immediately back to the United States when the war ended as he was making a career of...

James William Grimes [Annotator's Note: assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 45 (CASU 45) aboard the USS Hornet (...

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