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Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

Charles Wesley Borders heard about Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the...

James Shelton Scales was in the Marine Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Fred Gemmel already in conversation with the interviewer.] Gemmel arrived...

William Burkett remembers the Philippines as a pretty country. He drove everywhere. He drove a truck to Manila [...

Robert Hammond had to deal with his own health when he was on leave in Philadelphia. He had an appendectomy, and while...

John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...

After Baptiste left the Solomons he was sent to new construction. He was sent to the hospital because he lost his...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior [Annotator's Note: of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 28 (MTB RON 28) aboard PT-381...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs transferred back to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. The seven or eight tugs...

Francis John "Dick" Varone wanted to stay in the Marine Corps while he was overseas [Annotator's Note: with the 5th...

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