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William H Greason believed that African-American servicemen helped the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, Greason was a...

Hershel Hibbard recalled the process of refueling the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)]. Another ship...

Vejtasa made several raids prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: 4-8 May 1942]. After Tulagi, they...

Allen Horton reported aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), and a fellow Princeton acquaintance helped him settle into...

Arthur Pendleton was happy to get off of Cape Gloucester. They were there during the monsoon season. It was a terribly...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

Clint Quirk thought the most enjoyable experience was coming into port and getting drunk. Then getting back on the ship...

From looking at the maps the 2 men discovered that the maps showed the same coastline, but the distances and everything...

Robert Hammond had to deal with his own health when he was on leave in Philadelphia. He had an appendectomy, and while...

On 27 November [Annotator's Note: 27 November 1941], Robert Kinzler said, Hawaii went on an island-wide alert against...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

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