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Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

Louis Hutchinson and the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) used Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands] as an...

Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...

Gerald Kynett's family started rationing. His father had to get a special waver for gasoline since he was a salesman....

Mark John Maynard served on USS Sturgeon (SS-187), USS Marlin (SS-204), and USS Cobbler (SS-344) during World War Two....

Adolfo V. Celaya heard men who seemed to know each other [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez became a lawyer after the war. In Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam War, or Second Indochina...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

James T. Connelly was born in June 1922 in Dorange, South Carolina on a farm. His father had to hunt for a job. His...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...

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