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On the battleship, J. W. Childs said, it was mandatory for a sailor to wear his white hat if he went outside of his...

At Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk, Virginia], James W. Metcalf was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...

James Paul Lynch served on the USS Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)] and the USS Sea Dog [Annotator's Note:...

Philip Curran's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when they hit a typhoon outside of the Yellow Sea [...

Harry Watson said that when the war started, the submarines were used merely as a scouting force. They would get...

Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...

[Annotator's Note: Emil Schoonejans served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Burrfish (SS-312) and was rated a...

Arthur Fishman returned to the United States sometime in April or May 1946. He returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

When Claude Taylor turned 18, he enlisted in the Navy. His father had been in the Army in France in World War 1. The...

Karr believed that Admiral Becton [Annotator's Note: F. Julian Becton was the Commander of the Laffey] was a very, very...

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