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There were ways, Arthur Davis said, to make the ships appear to be going in the opposite direction from their heading....

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

Starnes has thought about the night the USS Boise ambushed the Tokyo Express many times. He had a sense of apprehension...

When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...

Wiley discussed how the natives found a large canoe that they could use. They filled the holes in the canoe with sap...

Harold Beal remembers the paratroopers could not do much for them on the beach, but by the end of the day, they were up...

Jake Ussery was born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas which is a small town north of Little Rock. His mother's parents lived...

Arthur Kuhn owed the government service and received a commission after he completed medical school [Annotator's Note:...

Sidney Maiten says he had an important job on his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Catoctin (AGC-5).]. He was in charge of...

Before the war, Arthur Davis worked in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] building a plant near the...

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