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Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Vernon Henry Moret and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

Once assigned to the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron [Annotator's Note: 17th Reconnaissance Squadron, 71st Reconnaissance...

After a 24 hour leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Donald Campbell reported to...

While on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman saw two Zeros [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

To avoid being drafted into the Army, James D. Comeaux volunteered for Naval service in June 1944, boarded a train, and...

Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...

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