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James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

Alfred Taddeo was with the squadron that became the Blue Angels [Annotator's Note: United States Navy Blue Angels...

When Austin H. Kiplinger returned to civilian life, he had no secondary effects. He was fortunate it being a little...

He was asleep in his bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, CA38] early in the morning of...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

While in the Java Sea after sinking a ship, another Japanese ship tried to sink the USS Blenny (SS-324). The crew then...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

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

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