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John Reeder remained on active duty, and was sent to the Naval Air Station at Mojave, California for a month, then...

Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox chose the Marine Corps rather than another branch because it was the Japs [Annotator's...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits thinks World War 2 did not change him. He continued to enjoy playing football with his...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's men [Annotator's Note: in the 208th Military Police Company] saved themselves, other men,...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe. He trained in a small...

Donald H. "Don" Bee was sent from Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake...

Shortly after the attack on the ammunition ship at Darwin, Australia, Richard Micklich [Annotator’s Note: serving as a...

Tyler was working in the information center receiving radar reports on the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack [...

Ralph Marcarelli reacted badly to inoculations when he entered the Navy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He missed boot...

Harvey Lee Bishop [Annotator’s Note: a North American P-51 Mustang fighter pilot in the 457th Fighter Squadron, 506th...

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