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The first couple times Arthur Killam was depth charged it was a little hairy but he does not recall getting too upset...

Deployment overseas for William Pierce was originally to be to Saipan. Because that battle had ended, Pierce's ship was...

Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

Alfred Dearman had never seen a tv [Annotator's Note: television] and kept reading about them. Another of his buddy and...

William J. Twigger's duty [Annotator's Note: with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division]...

In the spring of 1946, Hugh Ettinger was stationed at Rongerik Atoll [Annotator’s Note: Rongerik Atoll, Marshall...

The Laffey was in a rough state. She had been hit a number of times from a number of direction. Everything from the...

When Calvin Barrick was going to submarine school in New London he signed up for the Navy's V-12 program which was...

Wilbur Rogers said that everything he did [Annotator's Note: during his time in the US Navy] was before he was 21 years...

George Joseph Sullivan goes by "Joe Sullivan" because he has great relatives who were named Joe Sullivan, all the way...

In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

Martin L. Suter was born in January 1921, in Rochester, New York. He had a brother and sister growing up, but he was...

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