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The USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84) joined with another carrier, the USS Kitkun Bay (AVG-71), headed for Leyte in the...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

Ari Phoutrides's only thought of that day [Annotator's Note: a kamikaze attack on 15 to 16 April 1945] was that it was...

James Franklin Young was shipped from Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands] to Peleliu [Annotator's Note:...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was quickly released from the Navy after the war and attended college on the G.I. Bill [...

Milton Fernandez was born in September 1924 in Puerto Rico. He had eight siblings in his family. His father had a meat...

O'Callahan [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient US Navy Captain Joseph T. O'Callahan] was all over the place. He...

Robert Leese was based on New Guinea [Annotator's Note: with the 822nd Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group,...

Dr. Peter Paret, military historian and author, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, and his youth and life were shaped...

The Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 through 1953] broke out in June 1950 and James Shelton Scales did not realize he...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

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