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They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

Richard Witaker experienced much the same climate on Okinawa as he knew at home. There were pine trees and cultivated...

Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was leaving Panama for the Pacific, his PT Boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo...

Joseph Townsend remembers the other port city he went to was Alexandria [Annotator’s Note: Alexandria, Egypt]. There...

Arthur L. Eads met his wife not long after he returned home from World War 2. He married her in February 1946. He...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

Wallace Spencer and two others stole a whaleboat after the war. A wooden one. They were in Bremerton, Washington where...

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