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During Donald Dean's career in the Navy, the thing he enjoyed most was sailing along a nice smooth sea when he was off...

William Lee Barnes never had occasion to use the G.I. Bill. He had a job waiting for him after he took two weeks off...

Bruce McCormick was in the military for a long time. A lot of his friends who were soldiers in Korea [Annotator's Note...

Lawrence Brooks was drafted in 1940 and went for basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. By November [Annotator's...

Victor Yost's first action against the Japanese was at the Battle of the Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: 4 to 8 May 1942...

James L. Wheeler was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] to train for the Battle of Japan....

John F. Caraway was born on in November 1922 in Baytown, Texas, the son of an antiques dealer. At an early age, his...

One night, Leon Griffith was on patrol. The sergeant said they should all lay down and go to sleep. The moon came up...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...

Burton "Burt" Johnson had five brothers in the war as well as him. Three were in the Air Corps, two in the Navy, and he...

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Sharks began circling the group of survivors, and Cleatus Lebow said the predators were attacking men who broke away...

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