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Edward Riedl remembers that the Duck [Annotator's Note: DUKW; six-wheel-drive amphibious truck; also known as a Duck]...

Lewis S. Evans was born in April 1925. He went to boarding school during the Great Depression and played football and...

The US Navy had planes ready to help out at Wake Island but the admiral in charge figured that it was going to be too...

Edgar Harrell had very little energy and was just hoping for someone to discover him [Annotator's Note: while floating...

In 1964, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19) for the third time as the officer electrician....

Louis B. Hutchinson was born in November 1925 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note...

Mark Maynard was one of 27 chiefs in the SUBPAC [Annotator’s Note: Submarine Command Pacific] when only nine were...

James Shelton Scales majored in insurance when he was in college. He signed up as an insurance agent after the war. He...

William Scott Stroud and his crew carried out 39 strategic bombing missions. [Annotator's Note: Having been shot down...

It was a wonderful experience. Stinson would not trade a million dollars for his experience in World War II. On average...

One day, Jack Yusen heard his name called and he was ordered to report to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). Yusen and...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

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