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

The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

Captain Murray [Annotators Note: Captain Stuart S. Murray] was the captain on the USS Missouri. Starnes and Murray got...

Norman Sterrie participated in the Battle of Coral Sea on 7 and 8 May. [Annotator's Note: 7 and 8 May 1942. Sterrie was...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Clyde Barber was born in May 1924 in Drennan, Colorado. Each of his five brothers and one sister were born in different...

Arthur George Green spent about a year on occupation duty in Japan [Annotator’s Note: stationed in Kyushu and Shikoku...

Rex James Bates was born in November 1923 in Seattle, Washington. His father served as a drummer in the Navy during...

Charles Wesley Borders was strafing a target in New Guinea and got hit. He nursed the airplane back to a temporary base...

Samuel Malta had difficulties after his discharge from the service. He did not like taking orders from civilians. He...

Everett Hyland was on the radio gang on the Memphis [Annotator's Note: USS Memphis (CL-13)]. They picked up 200...

Lowell Rodrigue received more training and was assigned to a unit that was on a Merchant Marine ship. They went to...

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