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Nevin Sledge admired the SeaBees [Annotator's Note: Members of US naval construction battalions]. They did everything...

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

David Lamar Mealor was born in March 1923 in Newnan [Annotator’s Note: Newnan, Georgia]. He attended Newnan High School...

Lester Caplan's decision to serve in World War 2 came out of his belief that it was a legitimate war, and America was...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Jack Glass was interviewed prior to this for a show about the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)]. The...

Returning to the Pacific on the USS Brown (DD-546), John Cassidy participated in the invasion of Okinawa. He was there...

Robert S. Gibbs was assigned to fleet maneuvers at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the USS...

Charles Wesley Borders was up at the north end of Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines] just before the invasion...

James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

James Connelly made landings on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal Campaign, 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943;...

During George Vincent Ross's first night there [Annotator's Note: on Guam, mariana Islands], Marines were killed...

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