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Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

Harold Buell is proud to have been a dive bomber pilot. He was recalled from the United States to help a squadron that...

Harold Zeringer joined the 466 [Annotator's Note: USS PC-466] which was a warship of the first magnitude. Zeringer had...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

When James McCorriston left the hospital, he was assigned to the USS Fall River (CA-131), then he left the Navy. He...

Ralph Weymouth was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga (CV-3)] in San Diego when he learned of the...

Peter Newberg did not have much choice in abandoning ship [Annotator's Note: after the USS Yorktown (CV-5) was mortally...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

In the Marshalls [Annotator's Note: Marshall Islands] and Gilberts [Annotator's Note: Gilbert Islands], enough planes...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson entered the Navy in May 1945 at the age of 17 and did basic training at Great Lakes Naval...

The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

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