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Buck Donaldson joined the Navy. He went to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp by train....

Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

Thomas Edward Pugh made it to Washington the day Germany surrendered [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...

Roger Shaw returned to the United States by way of Northern Ireland. The SS George Gayle sailed alone before reaching...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

Charles Struble was born in June 1924 in Benton, Illinois. He grew up there with one brother and one sister. He also...

The Japanese hit their fuel supplies and it caused a lot of damage [Annotator's Note: on Wake Island on 8 December 1941...

When Theodore Pavlovich was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands], it was wet and rough. For...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Eugene Corson remembers seeing a USO show [Annotator's Note: United Service Organizations] in the Russel Islands where...

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