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Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...

Merlin Smith left Oakland on a shakedown cruise on his new ship [Annotator's Note: USS Goshen (APA-108)]. Afterward,...

Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

Richmond Hamilton was born in October 1921 in Richmond, Virginia. His father was self-employed as a paper wholesaler...

McClellan did not keep in touch with any of the men he served with after the war. He never attended any reunions. He...

Frank Dominic Lanzetta witnessed the damage done to many of the ships due to the Kamikazes around Okinawa [Annotator's...

Walter Bank used the G.I. Bill for graduate school at WPI [Annotator's Note: Worcester Polytechnic Institute in...

Donald Wilson took the train across country from San Francisco to Quincy, Massachusetts to report aboard the cruiser...

Jack Gutman was born in December 1925 in San Francisco, California, the son of a salesman who had nine children. The...

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