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Solis “Sol” Kaslow felt the PT boat was wonderful and outstanding for the job assigned [Annotator’s Note: Kaslow served...

Robert "Bob" Lowry was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1926. He had three...

John McCarthy reached Pearl Harbor on his ship [Annotator’s Note: the repair ship USS Laertes (AR-20)]. They waited...

David Foerster was in the Azores when the war ended in Europe and Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...

Ari Phoutrides's only thought of that day [Annotator's Note: a kamikaze attack on 15 to 16 April 1945] was that it was...

Alex Carter Sr. was born in December 1920 in Mississippi. He had three brothers and six sisters. He was the oldest...

Edward Thomas Toole thought transitioning to the Army was easy. He was a commissioned officer. It was interesting to...

Joseph Brannan reached Tulagi on the USS Niagara (AGP-1) [Annotator's Note: the USS Niagara (PG-52) was redesignated...

When he was told that he would be trained aboard ship as a gunner, Robert Fitz was "mystified." He arrived at the main...

Anthony Bianconi was in dry dock [Annotator's Note: as a musician and ammunition bearer on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41...

Alois Kopp saw conditions improve when he and other POWs from Burma were brought to Saigon. The local Vietnamese hated...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer went to Mobile, Alabama to board his assigned ship - the Landing Ship, Tank USS LST-502...

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