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While in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], Victor Yost helped clean the ship. When at sea, Yost...

Vaughan Whitworth got a couple of weeks to prepare prior to reporting to Montford Point [Annotator's Note: Camp...

Floyd James Reissig was a Petty Officer 3rd Class in the Navy. He served as a Coxswain [Annotator's Note: person in...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

In 1940, Alfred A. Lingo was activated into the Army for one year at Hamilton Field [Annotator's Note: now Hamilton Air...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

James "Jim" Marshall was discharged in 1945 and returned home to Kansas. He had some difficulty adjusting to civilian...

They were escorting 1 of the carriers and their flight crew. Their flight crew got caught out at night. They attempted...

In November 1945, Anna McCalla Noren boarded a transport plane and flew from Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. left a situation where he was tasked with destroying everything and went home to a place...

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