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In July 1945, Peter Hebert enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and was sent to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego,...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. After a very successful first...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

When Davis Gordon Mayes returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] his records were lost...

Randall Edwards does not remember how he got "mixed up with the Russians," but he has photos that prove he did. He does...

During the last advance Wahlen was involved in, he was called forward to treat a badly wounded marine [Annotators Note...

Donald Hoff's plane was not bothered [Annotator's Note: by Japanese fighters during the second strike of the Battle of...

Roy Boreen felt that World War 2 did not change his values in life although the war did have an impact on his life...

Paul Sartori Jr. returned home in January 1946. His father was waiting for him. He needed him to go to work. He was a...

James Roy Colquitt unloaded troops on the beach as the tide went out stranding his ship [Annotator’s Note: Colquitt was...

Otis Kight had his basic training for the Navy at Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia...

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