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Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was bringing troops home as part of Operation Magic...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

After Leyte, Harper Gruber's vessel [Annotator's Note: USS YMS-339] took part in the second invasion [Annotator's Note...

On 7 December 1941, Jack Holder was on duty at Ford Island, [Annotator’s Note: Ford Island, Hawaii]. His unit was in a...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Lowell Rodrigue and his crew [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] picked up some Marine troops and brought...

James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....

When the 12 ships in his squadron hit Diamondhead [Annotator's Note: the volcanic crater on Oahu, Hawaii], 6 went south...

At the end of January [Annotator's Note: January 1945] in Leyte Gulf, Frederick Grun had his first experience with...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Glass served in the Navy aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) as an aviation radioman in Fighting...

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