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John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

Raymond Hayes' most memorable experience of the war was going aboard ships and doing what he had to do. Like it or not...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

At Ormoc Bay, John E. Johnson drove his LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel also referred to as...

Howard Robert Charles participated in the Battle of Sunda Strait [Annotator's Note: as a machine gunner aboard the USS...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Alvin Barnes was temporarily assigned to the USS Indianapolis [Annotator's Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] for one day...

Joseph Barger was assigned as a machinist’s mate in the engine rooms aboard the USS LST-716. After amphibious training...

One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the Battle of Surigao Strait. The new and more...

Loren Bennett was born in October 1927 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He did not have any siblings....

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