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Louis Conter was located between the USS Arizona (BB-39)'s turrets three and four during the attack. With the terrible...

William Sturman and a buddy liked the Navy and just picked it to join. He wanted to see the ocean. He was old enough to...

Marion Labauve was born in February 1924 in Plaquemine, Louisiana. He was in the depression [Annotator's Note: the...

Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Robert Swan saw a carrier the first day [Annotator's Note: on 3 June 1942, the first day of the Battle of Midway] but...

Harold G. Cowart trained on an M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1...

Donald Hoff's [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...

From the Aleutians, Mark Brannon and the USS Hutchins (DD-746) went back to Hawaii then on to Port Moresby in Papua New...

Charles Chartier returned to the United States around Christmas of 1946. The trip home was a lot shorter than the trip...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

One of Karr's uncles was an original member of the American Legion when it was founded in Paris in World War I. Another...

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