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Joseph F. McGee Junior's most vivid memory of World War 2 is the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...

John E. Johnson said he got along with everybody on his ship. He reluctantly exposed the fact that the USS Liddle (ADP-...

Paul Sparacino was ordered aboard the USS Princeton [Annotator's Note: USS Princeton (LPH-5)] as an airdale [Annotator'...

Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Burrell received his orders to basic training on 22 December 1942]. Joseph Burrell had his...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

The train was moving fast. The train brought them to California. They brought the companies up to full strength. His...

James Shelton Scales did not think about his family much, except that he missed his wife and daughter. His wife wrote...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

Sumner Whitten was born in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school he went to Amherst College. In college he was in...

Charles Brooks entered the United States Navy. He was first shipped to Athens, Georgia for basic physical training...

William Stewart was sent to Washington state to work on the radar in flying box cars. He made corporal as an auto...

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