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Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

Baptiste went to the Customs House [Annotators Note: in New Orleans] on 5 February 1938 where he was selected with 6...

James Warren David was born in Youngsville, Louisiana in January 1926. During the Great Depression, his father and...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

John Singlaub compared British to American parachutes. The British chute was different in many ways compared to the...

John Geiger was security for the officer while on missions. They took the officer wherever he wanted to go. Every...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

While preparing the West Virginia [Annotator's Note: the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] to go into drydock, Archie Kelley...

After Guadalcanal, James Gulotta went to Bougainville. They did a lot of heavy fighting on Bougainville. The Marines...

Frederick Ellis's points were up, and he was entitled to go home. He got a new officer on board [Annotator's Note: USS...

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