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In Norfolk, Claude Shannahan met a WAVE [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] girl during...

Gerry Jones was painting radio towers in California when he heard the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

During this attack there was only one plane lost. As Norman Kleiss was heading back to the carrier he came across...

He took the advice of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jack Dobbs went right to work, hauling building supplies. He established a...

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...

Bruno S. Rinas discussed joining the service with a younger brother. He joined the military in 1940 at Fort Snelling [...

While in Manila, Wim de Jonge was ordered to return to the Dutch Army to fight an uprising in the Dutch East Indies....

Years ago Delewski did an interview for National Geographic. He accompanied his commanding officer Captain Becton [...

Earl Angel and the 11th Airborne [Annotator's Note: 11th Airborne Division] traveled overseas on the USS Edellyn [...

Loren Bennett thought it was easy to manage the limits of what could be sent home because they were at sea. The guys...

Clarence Robert Duff remembered that during World War 2, his ship rode out three typhoons. The last one was in December...

Dale LeBlanc went to boot camp in San Diego. Marines who went to boot camp in San Diego were referred to as Hollywood...

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