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Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

Thomas Tizzard was assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) and sent to Nouméa, New Caledonia. A person had told him the...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Division returned to Maui from Tinian. There was a big luau and then training started...

Gerard V. Radice grew up in the Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] area. His father was an immigrant from...

Edmond Guidry was in charge of the movie projectors [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)]. They got a pint...

Karr believed that Admiral Becton [Annotator's Note: F. Julian Becton was the Commander of the Laffey] was a very, very...

Arles E. Cole was born in Porum, Oklahoma in December 1923. He grew up there. His childhood was rough. It was the...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

William Roy was on the USS Yorktown [Annotator's Note: CV-5] when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Yorktown was at Pier 7...

Malcolm Ernest was with about 100 American prisoners in Manchuria [Annotator's Note: Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria;...

After a trip to Guantanamo Bay [Annotator's Note: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] and back in the newly commissioned USS Hutchins...

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