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After Parris Island, William Pierce went to Hingham, Massachusetts which housed a huge naval ammunition manufacturing...

Marvin Hill had a famous bandleader aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748)]. Eddie Duchin...

Robert Freligh probably decided to join the navy because his brother was in the army and there was most likely some...

Louis B. Hutchinson was born in November 1925 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note...

Donald Dean had been impressed when he first saw the brand new ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Balduck (APD-132)]. The...

Deployment overseas for William Pierce was originally to be to Saipan. Because that battle had ended, Pierce's ship was...

While heading to the invasion of Iwo Jima, Richard Nummer's convoy of ships was joined by numerous ships at Saipan....

Archibald Higgins was in the Palau Islands with the mission of keeping those islands neutralized and flying missions to...

Steve McMurray related that by the time an attacking unit reached its objective on the heights of Iwo Jima, its force...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

When Crain was in the armada heading towards the beaches [Annotator's Note: during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943],...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...

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