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William C. Ellzey joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in May 1941] and trained as a hospital corpsman in Portsmouth,...

David Yoho was on a fleet oiler in World War 2. The ship took on fuel sometimes from a fuel barge in order to refuel...

Lester Caplan was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the son of a traveling salesman, he felt his childhood was "...

Harold Ward has never seen any history on what happened to the Helena [Annotators Note: USS Helena (CL-50)], the...

They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] called the officer over and told him that the war was over. About a half hour...

Marthe Cohn was the chief of a hospital at the DMZ [Annotator's Note: the Demilitarized Zone, Vietnam; then French...

Burton Johnson feared that his handling of Japanese POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] would be held against him...

One time that scared William Beaman happened when the USS Flasher (SS-249) was firing electric torpedoes. They were...

Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...

James did not realize that he was shot right away. He knew he was hit but the pain did not register. He went down below...

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were part of Task Group 38.2 under Admiral...

After one patrol during which he was carrying a heavy BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle], Richard...

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