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Thomas Crosby was born in September 1933 in Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao, Philippines. His mother, grandmother and aunt...

Kenneth Theis [Annotator’s Note: Supply and Disbursement Officer aboard the USS Manlove (DE-36)] was part of a giant...

James Born installed water units that changed saltwater to fresh water for various buildings like barracks, bases, and...

Their kickoff point was Finschhafen [Annotator's Note: Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea], and when the time came, Leo V....

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

In May 1943, Paul Lawrence had technically been the Navy for one year. While at school, he waited tables. Lawrence was...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and other internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

To avoid being drafted into the Army, James D. Comeaux volunteered for Naval service in June 1944, boarded a train, and...

Phoutrides took part in the Normandy invasion. He knew what was happening but couldn't understand the enormity of the...

When Keith Renstrom went to Iwo Jima he fought well because the excitement was not there. He functioned better as a...

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