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Arthur Pendleton does not recall to much more about Cape Gloucester. There was nothing pleasant about it and he was...

David R. Saunders traveled down the river [Annotator's Note: the Mississippi River] and out into the Gulf of Mexico....

Sterling Baker's records say that at Casablanca [Annotator's Note: Casablanca, Morocco] he was patrolling a lagoon, but...

Henry Ratcliff joined the Army Air Forces and went many places including California where it rained a lot. Eating in...

Monroe Scherer was the chess champion of not only basic, but later training. He was at Fort Belvoir, Virginia which was...

James Paul Lynch says the FM radar [Annotator's Note: or FM sonar, high-frequency, short-range sonar using frequency...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Cole (DD-155). The Cole left Norfolk for North Africa to land Rangers ashore in...

Floyd James Reissig was hit by shrapnel from one of his own guns. While they were firing, the shrapnel hit him, causing...

Bill Norberg boarded USS Enterprise (CV-6) and was amazed by the ship. He could never find the swimming pool. He was a...

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