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Stewart Bass served aboard an Essex class aircraft carrier. [Annotator's Note: Bass served as a Grumman TBM Avenger...

After joining the Navy, Douglas Holmes Blair was assigned to the USS Hampden County (LST-803). The crew left New...

Wanda Damberg’s wounded friend [Annotator’s Note: shot during the liberation of Los Baños] survived and went on to...

In Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Everett Hyland did hear rumors of going to war. When out on their two weeks at sea, and at...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum had good friends with him aboard the USS Leon (APA-48). Saipan was his first invasion [Annotator's...

Paul Takeo Bannai decided to go to Washington D.C. to lobby for the inclusion of Japanese-Americans in the military. He...

James Connelly got burned. They ran short of gasoline for flamethrowers. A small boat came back to get more. The LCM [...

Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

Later on, Thomas Edward Pugh sailed through a storm. He landed in Auckland, New Zealand and was put on a truck that...

Louis Conter started to talk to school students about Pearl Harbor in 1991. He and other Pearl Harbor attack survivors...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

Rob Roy Ratliff worked for the CIA [Annotator's Note: Central Intelligence Agency] after World War 2. While working in...

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