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Ralph C. Franklin did not pass his first physical for the Marine Corps because he was underweight. He ate bananas and...

Recalling his most memorable experiences, Ray Gene Gresham said one thing that left a lasting impression was an...

Living aboard the USS Enterprise was tough. Feightner slept in a hammock under a 5 inch gun mount. Other pilots bunked...

Hugh Wingo and his unit trained at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] for a while before they went...

Jack Leaming had a buddy nicknamed Ace who was a prisoner of war, POW, from the carrier Yorktown. [Annotator's Note: At...

Basic training was not too bad for Leslie B. Mason, Junior. His dad was an athletic director, so he was used to doing...

Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...

Schuyler Lininger departed Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco,...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Kolesa was on Kauai, Hawaii with the Searchlight Battery, 8th Antiaircraft Artillery...

By the time Kenneth A. Lafleur had enough points to go home, he had flown 41 missions in the Pacific. Lafleur remarked...

After his discharge from serving in World War 2, Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. remained in the Naval Reserve and was called up...

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