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Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...

On 26 March 1945, Fiske Hanley II [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

Carl Trim says the tensest time on any trip at sea was when the captain would call everyone to general quarters [...

The first thing they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and his rear seat gunner John Liska] needed was water. Behind...

Dale Peterson returned to the United States aboard his cruiser, the USS San Juan (CL-54). She was decommissioned in...

Kenneth Wieland went straight to Japan. He was assigned to the Aviation Engineer battalion [Annotator’s Note: Company A...

Charles Chartier was sent to a replacement depot in Korea. He joined the 63rd Infantry [Annotator’s Note: 63rd Infantry...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...

Paris Tognoli got out of high school and decided not to go to college. He got a job in a slaughterhouse, but he did not...

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