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Myers was discharged from the Navy as a Seamen Last-Class [Annotator's Note: either apprentice seaman or seaman 2nd...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...

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

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

Dupuy was rotated out after his escort missions on Truk. There was no system of rotation for pilots in the Pacific like...

James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...

James Roy Colquitt was born in September 1926 in Needmore, Alabama. He was one of nine children. His family lived on a...

Francis John "Dick" Varone wanted to stay in the Marine Corps while he was overseas [Annotator's Note: with the 5th...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe joined VMF-323 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighter Squadron 323 (VMF-323), called the "Death...

Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...

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