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Connick's boat [Annotator's Note: an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel)] held roughly thirty-six men. Each boat...

After being assigned to the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) [Annotator's Note: sometimes referred to as "Indy"], Edgar Harrell...

Wiley noted that there were no other survivors of his plane. His wingman returned to the Enterprise [Annotator's Note:...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

In 1949, Louis R. Lepore joined a local tank unit that was later sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to...

James Shelton Scales was in the Marine Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

After the war ended, Charles A. Waller returned to the United States and was given a 30-day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Carrel Reavis took a train to Wilmington, North Carolina and then a bus to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville...

While Carl Rieman was off of Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], the USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)...

After high school in San Francisco, California, Peter Paret entered the University of California at Berkley. He...

Willie Roy Hebert kept in touch with his brothers while he was in the service [Annotator's Note: with Marine Aviation...

John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...

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