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John Earles was born in April 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a section foreman on the GM...

William Beaman was 18 years old when he participated in his first submarine patrol in the Pacific, and he said he didn'...

[Annotators Note: Janice Benario served in the navy as a member of the WAVES and worked with ULTRA intercepts decoding...

At the same time Rochford was getting relieved, Captain Goggin was replacing him and was on the way to take over. There...

Joseph Fisher was born in January 1925 in Marshall, Texas. He had one brother who was two years older. He went through...

James Gaffney got into trouble in Cartagena [Annotator’s Note: Cartagena, Colombia]. Some of the crew was driven in a...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

While preparing the West Virginia [Annotator's Note: the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] to go into drydock, Archie Kelley...

Sunday, 7 December 1941 was just like any other Sunday for Fred Aldridge and his fellow sailors. When an alarm sounded...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

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