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Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

[Annotator’s Note: Someone is coughing in the background throughout this segment.] Willie D. Knippers was born in Pike...

George Hamilton was assigned to a skeleton crew aboard the USS Orleck (DD-886) in Norfolk, Virginia when he first heard...

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were part of Task Group 38.2 under Admiral...

Clifford Albert Hahn reached Dutch Harbor [Annotator's Note: Dutch Harbor, Alaska] on 11 May [Annotator's Note: 11 May...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

[Annotator's Note: Archibald Rackerby was wounded by friendly fire while training on Guadalcanal on 9 March 1944.]...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

Mahlen Arledge experienced his first combat on Angaur. He had no idea what to expect in combat. The first night on the...

William Winter was born in 1923 in Grenada County, Mississippi. He came up during the depression on a cotton and cattle...

Karen K. Lewis never suffered from post-traumatic stress after her experiences in an internment camp. She was never...

Martin L. Suter was born in January 1921, in Rochester, New York. He had a brother and sister growing up, but he was...

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