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Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

Robert Perry was born in Ebenezer, Louisiana, near Crowley [Annotator's Note: Crowley, Louisiana], in November 1926. He...

Dale Peterson returned to the United States aboard his cruiser, the USS San Juan (CL-54). She was decommissioned in...

Earnest tried to get a lead on the cruiser so he could drop his torpedo [Annotators Note: after being hit during the...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

When John Votrobeck arrived at the base [Annotator's Note: in Freemantle, Australia], he was assigned to Submarine...

Martin Suter was sent to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], where he stayed for some time before...

Socrates Dendrinelis was in the radio shack [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Carina (AK-74)]. He could see the...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note:...

The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

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