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Eugene Corson was happy to be in the Navy. It was rough. He went to boot camp in Rhode Island at an airbase. He could...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

Richard O'Hara had one brother three and a half years older than him who went in the Marines earlier than O'Hara. He...

Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...

After completing basic training, Henry Baul was allowed to return home for leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized...

Mitchell Zimmer served aboard two sister-ship submarines, the Snapper [Annotator's Note: USS Snapper (SS-185) and the...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. was born in January 1927. His home was in the Atchafalaya Basin [Annotator's Note: also...

Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war of the Japanese] left the war feeling that we are all human beings...

After separation from the service, David R. Saunders did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill. Saunders' most memorable...

Frederick Jenkins was in damage control in the machine shop where the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was in New Caledonia when he received transfer orders from USS Patterson (DD-392) to an oil burning...

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