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Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS Bayfield, near Okinawa] for about twelve days...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

Paul Ignatius was assigned to Composite Squadron 80 (VC-80) aboard the USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) as the squadron’s...

Bruno S. Rinas was able to complete the work he was given because he was being fed. He never saw the Japanese shoot...

[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA38...

Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...

Fred Gemmel's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)] was assisted into a port after sustaining damage [...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was born in June 1922 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He has three sisters, many nieces and...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

Paul Dietzel continued flying in civilian life after the war. When he would fly with the team, the pilots would...

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