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Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

William Scott Stroud was put into an air crew in Utah [Annotator's Note: Wendover Field, later Wendover Air Force Base...

Roger Shaw returned to the SS George Gayle after his leave in New Orleans, Louisiana. The was his original ship. It...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was sent to El Toro [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California] to...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He attended a one-room school and...

Byron Herbert Meader was born in May 1919 in Ellsworth, Maine. His father worked as a laborer. During the Great...

World War 2 began in 1931 when Japan invaded north China [Annotator's Note: Manchuria region of China]. Austin H....

James Shelton Scales landed on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saipan, 15 June to 9 July 1944, Saipan, Mariana...

Edmond Guidry came back [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] to the Philadelphia Navy Yard [Annotator's...

Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

Each regiment had a book with pictures in it. When the war was over, Thomas J. Smith, Junior felt like a curtain came...

Keith Kiefer was born in January 1957 in Longview, Texas. In school, he did not get taught about World War 2 until...

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