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Albert Elmer "John" Cummings always had a soft spot for the Marblehead [Annotator's Note: USS Marblehead (CL-12)]. It...

Soon after the Battle of the Philippines, Murphy Burke remembers spending a week at one of the larger ports, Ulithi....

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

When he was fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, Olaf Rose hated the enemy, but as the years have gone by, he admits...

William Leibold was topside with O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane had been the commanding...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

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

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

Later on [Annotator's Note: in the war] in the atolls on the way to China, the destroyers would go into the lagoons...

Even with his hearing difficulties, Robert Dickinson still jumps when loud noises go off, in just the way he did when...

Burl Loving was ordered to report to the 317 [Annotator’s Note: USS YMS-317 minesweeper] which was a 130-foot-long,...

Connick's boat [Annotator's Note: an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel)] held roughly thirty-six men. Each boat...

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