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The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Leo William Schmittgens waited sometime before his ship had arrived for them to leave Okinawa. He helped load the ship...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

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