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Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman during his service in World War 2. When the...

After basic training, James Franklin Young was sent to New River, North Carolina and placed in the Fleet Marine Force....

Fred Bergeron saw three carriers as well as battle ships, cruisers and destroyers spread out over a very wide area. The...

In Combat Intelligence school they learned to analyze and creep up on Japanese emplacements, the types of troops, type...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

Wilbur Rogers laughs at remembering the reward for picking up a downed pilot: ice cream. For each man a ship picked up...

Edward Bale and his tanks loaded into LCMs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft, Mechanized] and then into an LSD [...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled picking up survivors from the USS Franklin (CV-13) during the kamikaze attacks off...

William Lutz was born in March 1920 and raised in Reading [Annotator’s Note: Reading, Pennsylvania]. He had a good life...

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