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Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

Louis Block was born in December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and went to school there. He lost his mother at...

Charles Chatterton was relieved to be back in the United States. On his return, they stopped in Honolulu [Annotator's...

Monroe Scherer was born in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn, New York] in March 1926. He lived in Manhattan [...

John Mikus, Jr. was with the old paratroopers on Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Battle of Vella Lavella, 15 August to...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Abner Aust was determined to get 30 years in the service. He had good jobs and he did good jobs. He had good crews who...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...

Abraham Rosenzweig suffered from a punctured eardrum when an explosion occurred near his boat near the island [...

Morton William Werner returned to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and then took a train to...

Edmond Guidry wanted to kill the Japanese for what they did. When the war ended, the United States still did not trust...

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