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Living aboard the USS Enterprise was tough. Feightner slept in a hammock under a 5 inch gun mount. Other pilots bunked...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...

Samuel Ukrop was at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with John Cleveland [Annotator's Note...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands] was taken on 1 November [Annotator's Note: 1...

Kenneth Dwight Wells arrived in the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Russell Islands, Solomon Islands] and spent some...

James Connelly made landings on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal Campaign, 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943;...

A few weeks after the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942], Leon Williamson returned to Ewa [...

In late 1943, Charles A. Waller boarded a ship from San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] with 800 other...

George Joseph Bertucci felt the war improved him because he furthered his education afterwards. He had ambition to do...

James L. Wheeler was born in Los Angeles, California, in February 1926. His father was a dairy man, and his mother was...

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