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Bruce McCormick returned to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County,...

Sam S. McKeel dropped out of high school at age 16 to enlist in the Navy during World War 2. He knew he was going to...

As far as a specific routine, they knew what had to be done when they woke up in the morning. The crews were very...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Salvador Guercia tells the tale of how he went with friends to see a guy that made corn liquor on Leyte [Annotator's...

Jack Linscott remembers that the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ships] were not...

Jack Leaming was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1919. When he was three months old, his mother moved to Wildwood...

Edmond Guidry took a troop ship out of San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] with no escort and...

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

Richard Miralles was bombing the Philippines. A pilot had dropped two bombs into his bomb bay. The bombs blew up and...

Black hoods were placed on the heads of William Leibold and the others [Annotator's Note: the other survivors of the...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs transferred back to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. The seven or eight tugs...

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