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Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Jack Glass believes that good commanders made the USS Enterprise (CV-6) such a good ship. There was hardly anyone in...

The only thing Phineas Stevens remembers about Corregidor [Annotator's Note: Corregidor Island, Luzon, Philippines] is...

William Roy had served in Battleship Division 5 in the Atlantic on the battleship Arkansas [Annotator's Note: USS...

William Currier [Annotator's Note: while serving as a radarman aboard the USS Hall (DD-583)] headed to Iwo Jima [...

Salvador Perino was born in March 1924. He grew up in the Irish Channel, New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans,...

Howard Robert Charles became a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: after the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30) in...

Stewart Bass' most memorable experience in World War 2 was his participation in the attack on the Japanese battleship...

During World War 2, the term PTSD [Annotator's Note: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] did not exist, it was called...

Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...

When the crew abandoned the USS Perch (SS-176), Robert Lents said some of the guys in the water turned on their...

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