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Lester Hecht went to boot camp at Parris Island in South Carolina. He got in shape. It did not bother him. He was older...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

When general quarters were announced, Francis Borrell had to be in his position as fast as possible. He would sit at...

When Robert G. Aldous first got to Mindoro [Annotator's Note: Mindoro, Philippines in January 1945 with the 319th...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

Mort Oman was born in Chicago, Illinois in September 1923 and moved to Winnetka, Illinois when he was in the sixth...

Once Frank Pomroy was brought to the beach he was treated by a Navy corpsman and evacuated from Peleliu to a hospital...

Jack Linscott remembers that the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ships] were not...

William Earl Gast was sent to Camp Shanks [Annotator's Note: in Orangetown, New York] for embarkation. While he waited...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

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