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The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

When he got out of the military, David Heath used the G.I. Bill. Before the war, he worked in a garage overhauling...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

Vaughan Whitworth got a couple of weeks to prepare prior to reporting to Montford Point [Annotator's Note: Camp...

Paris Tognoli was born in December 1924 in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. They later...

William Lansford was attached to the 27th Regiment [Annotator's Note: Regimental Headquarters, 27th Marine Regiment,...

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

Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...

After the attack on 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Cass...

George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...

Walter Atwood was born Lebanon, Kansas in February 1922. He grew up on a farm. He had to milk cows before and after...

Wanda Damberg got up to go to the bathroom one morning and saw a nun along the way [Annotator’s Note: Damberg was in...

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