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While on watch duty [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Aldebaran (AF-10)], Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade studied the stars....

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

John Gehrett was born in July 1921 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where grew up and was educated. The family home was on...

Sumner Whitten would rent his car out for five dollars per night. Whitten took his graduation leave in New England then...

William Burkett served in the war because he did not have a choice. The United States had been attacked. There was no...

Robert Erskine Hendrick's [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th Marine Defense Battalion] father [Annotator's Note:...

The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

Gravois was born in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana and grew up in Edgard, Louisiana until he was 17.Pearl Harbor was on 7...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

Clyde Barber was a member of Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) which flew PBYs [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina]...

William Pierce went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina following his tour in Hingham, Massachusetts. Because he had been...

Robert J. Ferris was born in January 1922 in Pittsford, New York. He had one older brother. His father worked as a...

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