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John Vessey goes by Jack. His father was John and his son is named John and his grandson is named Jack. They all...

Otis Kight participated in the Battle of Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942]. Few...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

James Allen remembers Henry Glinski coming aboard with him. Glinski was a couple years older than Allen. Allen had...

Robert L. Rorschach was a member of the radar crew on the Pickaway [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] which was...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was assigned to the crew of a crash boat and deployed to Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll,...

Charles Chartier was born in Applegate, Michigan in February 1927. He had one brother and one sister. He was the...

Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served in Europe with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group]...

While recovering from an ear infection [Annotator's Note: in the hospital at Fort Bragg, North Carolina], Matthew...

Vernon Leo Tyler was born in August 1923 in Los Angeles, California. There was no work [Annotator's Note: during The...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

Joseph A. Cardinale was born in Syracuse, New York in 1925, and raised in Rochester, New York. His parents were Italian...

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