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In 1964, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19) for the third time as the officer electrician....

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

A kamikaze hit Jack Dunlavy's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Missouri (BB-63)] on 11 April [Annotator's Note: 11 April...

Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...

While in captivity, Walter Bowsher received few Red Cross packages, and, of those he received, some of them were...

William Wayne left the United States for the first time and it was not scary, but it was different. They made their way...

Arthur McHardy went by train from Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan] to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San...

Calvin Moore left boot camp in September 1943. He attended his sister's funeral and returned in time to be shipped out...

Robert Akins discusses how the heroes were the ones who gave their lives 10,000 miles from home. Of the 120 men in his...

Joseph L. Harrison was born in March 1923 in Live Oak County in George West, Texas. When he was about five years old,...

On the trip from Pendleton to Columbia [Annotators Note: Oregon to South Carolina in December 1941] Richard Cole was...

Through the various responsibilities he performed, Frank Savage was shown his talents. He thinks it equipped him for...

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