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Melvin Munch was born in 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in the portion of the city that was referred to...

Later on [Annotator's Note: in the war] in the atolls on the way to China, the destroyers would go into the lagoons...

Richard Miralles was bombing the Philippines. A pilot had dropped two bombs into his bomb bay. The bombs blew up and...

After boot camp, Norman Elliott was assigned to a newly-commissioned ship, the USS Pasadena (CL-65). From the Boston...

Robert Swan left the island [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] around 8 or 10 June [Annotator's Note: June 1942]. Even...

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Shortly before his 19th birthday, Frank Pantuso met Sergeant Tatonetti [Annotator's Note: no given name provided] and...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

Norman Hatch graduated from high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1938. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

The guys at Midway knew that the Navy was out there but not where they were. Sumner Whitten was at Midway when an SBD [...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

Willis Mills was born in July 1926 and grew up in Holyoke, Colorado. It was a small farming community. His father...

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