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When Willie Wesley Thompson volunteered for the service, the Navy told him he did not have to go because he had bad...

Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...

The most significant thing to occur during the Battle of Midway that allowed for American victory is up for debate....

Curt Simmons is trying to get the D-Day Museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana]...

Raymond Vincent Hayes was born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1926. He had three brothers but his sister died in...

William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...

As the United States Armed Forces got closer to Japan, Claude Bufford Shaw felt more vindicated for the loss of his...

The worst duty for Vernon Micheel was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a Douglas SBD...

Alois Kopp was a pharmacist's mate aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) prior to its sinking. He was captured by the Japanese...

Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

John Laster described other ships and other missions that were dangerous but never fatal. Once, the SS Alcoa Patriot...

Willie Wesley Thompson recalled a time when the ship his company was on was being bombed and he was holding on for dear...

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