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Kenneth Theis reached Pearl Harbor and discovered that he was to be the Supply and Disbursement Officer on the USS...

Leon Griffith was unloading mules [Annotator's Note: as part of the 98th Field Artillery Battalion] and the Japanese...

Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

Gordon Tadewaldt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the USS PGM-1 was caught in a typhoon on their way...

Louis J. Armentaro was drafted even though he wanted to go prove himself. They told him he was underweight and would...

Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

After Michael Mervosh helped his wounded friends in the foxhole he realized that he had lost his hearing [Annotator's...

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

They [Annotator’s Note: Charles Borders and his fellow pilots in the 82nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 71st...

[Annotator's Note: James McEnery served in the USMC as a rifleman in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

Ed Weber went into the service on 5 December 1942 and went to the San Diego Marine Corps base [Annotator's Note: Marine...

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