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Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard USS LST-781] moved around the South...

Roy Boreen felt that World War 2 did not change his values in life although the war did have an impact on his life...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

There was a small passageway that went all the way up the side of the ship to the front of the ship. It was lined with...

Benjamin Hagans remembers the officers’ mess had a menu. Hagans was with his brother, Bill, for three weeks. Then they...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

Describing PT-371 [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat], Richard McEwen said that it had a big "day room" up front,...

Blanchard was still feeling the effects of the smoke inhalation when he was in Honolulu. He dealt with this injury for...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey served in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13). He...

In 1944 as a senior in high school, Howard Cain avoided the draft by enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was gung-ho...

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