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Donald Draxler was born in Glenwood City, Wisconsin in July 1923. His home town was near the "Twin Cities" [Annotator’s...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe left Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April to...

David Yoho had his first voyage on a tanker shakedown trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the shakedown, the ship went...

Soon after being drafted into the Army, Richard Jaccarino was sent to Camp Upton at the end of Long Island, New York...

Martin Carmody did his flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. When he graduated nine months later he was sent to San...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior went into the service as a green, inexperienced young man. During the war, he travelled...

Lewis S. Evans was born in April 1925. He went to boarding school during the Great Depression and played football and...

Daniel Morisak left Kiriwina [Annotator's Note: Kiriwina Island in the Trobriand Island Group of Papua New Guinea]...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

Edgar Harrell was floating in the Pacific Ocean with a life jacket while other were not [Annotator's Note: after he...

After Orville Bethard went aboard ship [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] they went to Australia where...

Anna McCalla Noren's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the trip across the Pacific and having to sit in...

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