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Thomas Goss was born in 1921 in Yonkers, New York but grew up in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York...

Edward Chinnis enlisted in the Navy on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11 November 1942] in Raleigh, North Carolina then...

Fred L. Keller Jr. was born Algiers, Louisiana in January 1924. After he graduated high school, he got a job working at...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

Kenneth E. Stevens was on watch [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine...

Wallace Spencer remembers the air groups and the pilots stayed away from the sailors. In one attack, all the colored...

Edmond Guidry went to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on the Texas [Annotator's Note: USS...

Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

The following morning, Leon Williamson was sent to attack two heavy cruisers west of Midway Island [Annotator's Note:...

John Burr wrote letters to his wife. They would get mail sporadically. They wrote letters and would give them to the...

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