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Thomas Edward Pugh enjoyed returning to the United States, but also enjoyed going overseas. Pugh was surprised when he...

The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

Philip Curran's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when they hit a typhoon outside of the Yellow Sea [...

Lawrence Brooks followed the war while he was in service. One of the islands he was on had Japanese pillboxes. The...

Raymond Hayes' most memorable experience of the war was going aboard ships and doing what he had to do. Like it or not...

Lloyd Dendy thinks that they shot several [Annotator's Note: Japanese] aircraft down while on Woodlark Island. There...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on lookout duty with hi-powered binoculars when the first invasion attempt on Wake Island...

Gravois was born in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana and grew up in Edgard, Louisiana until he was 17.Pearl Harbor was on 7...

John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51] bombed Clark Field [...

Ed Weber was on furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in Dallas [Annotator's...

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