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James Born installed water units that changed saltwater to fresh water for various buildings like barracks, bases, and...

Home base for William Beaman and the USS Flasher (SS-249) was Perth, Australia. At the end of a two month mission, the...

Basic training was easy for Arthur Frongello because he did not smoke. He grew up running alot and playing games that...

Janice Benario did not think about her job too much while she was doing it. Every once in a while they got excited when...

Joseph Fisher went back to college after he returned home. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. served on the Tippecanoe [Annotator's Note: USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)] which was 480 feet long...

Richard Tempus Dixon's time in the Philippines was interesting. Some of the natives got hold of some hand grenades and...

After the war was over, three envoys [Annotator's Note: from the government of Japan] were sent to Jack Dunlavy's ship...

Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands] was a morale...

Fred Aldridge decided to stay in the Navy after World War 2 because his family was growing up and needed educations. He...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

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