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The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alex Vraciu was...

Life on the ship was boring. Raymond A. Reed was on 15 different ships in 35 different countries. He was a lucky Seabee...

Fred Arthur Balfour was told to find his own way on board [Annotator's Note: after the war ended and arriving at his...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Jack Raskoph was not much help in the radio room. He was a Radioman 3rd Class. His channel was operated by the British...

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

Ernest Barber was born in September 1924 in rural Mississippi with three brothers and one sister while his father...

Edward Thomas Toole wanted to join the Naval Air Force but he could not make it. The Navy appealed to him more than any...

Charles Taylor was a secret serviceman after World War 2. He married in 1954 to his first wife and remarried after her...

Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

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