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Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

Harvey Mittleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was...

Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

Frank George Memory was born in Slaterville, Utah in July 1923. He had one brother and a sister and was the middle...

Jack Leaming was launched off the deck of the Enterprise on the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...

Alfred Taddeo is from Portland, Oregon. While there with a group of classmates at the University of Portland Oregon [...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

Charles Bruce was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1926. He had two brothers and a sister. He was the oldest. He was...

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