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The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

James Gaffney reviews the crew and officers of the PT Boat he served on in World War II. Some were good and some not so...

Samuel Ukrop's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] was not...

Clarence Robert Duff remarked on the times when they interacted with Japanese pilots. Duff remembered they came across...

[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Buck Donaldson remembers only one other sailor was in church on his first day in Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

At 11 years in the Navy, Randall Edwards decided to make a career of the military. In 1946, he had an unfortunate...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285) enjoyed free time at Brisbane [Annotator's...

The day after the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

Carroll George was on a transport ship that made tremendous voyages, two to the Far East and one to the Mediterranean,...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

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