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Lester Hecht's commanding officer's name was John L. Smith [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Colonel John Lucian Smith...

Patrick Zilliacus thinks that the variety of odd jobs he held before being drafted helped him in duties on a submarine...

Richard Baile feels that it is important to teach young people about World War 2 but feels that teaching young people...

Vernon Micheel sailed on a freighter manned by a crew from Ceylon [Annotator's Note: now Sri Lanka, November 1942]. He...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. did his first missions into China and Formosa [Annotator's Note: modern day Taiwan]. They had...

Stewart "Stu" Bass was born and raised in Western Montana, about 20 miles outside of Missoula. He was the middle child...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

When Rosemarie Weber finished high school, she met a priest named Father John. Father John suggested that she look up...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

Louis Conter left the USS Arizona (BB-39) via a liberty boat after her fatal bombing. He boarded the boat near number...

Paul Sartori Jr. went home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] and then went...

Greg Woodham found that no one inquired about his time in the Philippines and when he was older, they only desired an...

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