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The first time Willie Roy Hebert had ever been on a ship was when he was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

Windom Joseph Burton was an aviation metalsmith 1st class when he was discharged. He might have received a promotion to...

Charles Bishop stayed with the Piranha [Annotators Note: USS Piranha (SS-389)] to put her out of commission since he...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Kenneth Wieland's most memorable experience of the war was coming home. He had served because all the other guys his...

Dupuy flew air support for the Marines who were landing on Tinian [Annotators Note: July 1944]. The invasion took...

Jack Leaming joined the US Navy in December 1938 and was assigned to the USS Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Nobuo Hayashi remembers listening to the radio and hearing how Japan had to attack Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...

In early 1945, after completing missions in the Philippines, Richard R. Ruess' squadron [Annotator's Note: 4th...

Garland Bath can only say the government spent a lot on him, he learned a lot of stuff, and spent a lot of time at sea...

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