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Stanley Harvey Bender chose the enlist in the Marine Corps. He liked the dress blue uniform, and one of his father’s...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Ray Snyder graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Engineering Physics, and was commissioned in...

Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...

Once while Frank Mancuso was out with his friends, they began talking about how bad things were getting in Germany,...

Cleveland Peterson was aboard the SS Johnson when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They had been...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Don Bowling was born in Penoke, near Princeton, West Virginia in July 1925. His father was superintendent of mines and...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

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