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Merrill's roommate was Olie Hansen.After a raid the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, CV-6...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

John DuBose reached his new ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Bostonian] and was immediately given lifeboat training. He...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

[Annotator's Note: Robert Prince volunteered to be a Ranger while in Port Moresby, New Guinea.] They moved to...

Shigemitsu [Annotator's Note: Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician] and Alfred Dearman interacted quite...

William Lutz liked boot camp because he got a rifle. He liked the firing range. He became a gunner after basic training...

Peter Hebert’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was wanting to join the Navy and the patriotism of the country...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

Ralph Weymouth was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga (CV-3)] in San Diego when he learned of the...

While in the Java Sea after sinking a ship, another Japanese ship tried to sink the USS Blenny (SS-324). The crew then...

Kenneth Dwight Wells arrived in the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Russell Islands, Solomon Islands] and spent some...

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