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After being discharged, Monroe Scherer attended college on the G.I. Bill. Most of the students in his classes were...

Henry Baul believes the military offered a bit more racial respect than his civilian life. While in the Marine Corps,...

On the 8th [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1942, the second day of the Battle of Coral Sea], Norman Sterrie knew it was going...

It was only a storm that allowed the Enterprise [Annotators Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] to not be in Pearl Harbor...

Gerald Kynett picked up his ship in Evansville, Indiana, then sailed down the Mississippi [Annotator's Note:...

Carlos Reed does not think about his service much. He has memories of the war, but he does not think it made a...

Oran Harris was born in Hartford, Tennessee in September 1924. His childhood home was near the Smoky Mountains, about...

Harold Zeringer could not keep up with the European War because he devoted his attention to the war in the Pacific. The...

Donald Herbert Shown and the Indianapolis [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] were in the Aleutians at the...

Schuyler Lininger departed Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco,...

In 1953 Thomas Crosby enlisted in the Navy. He was competing as a diver for the University of Hawaii and attending...

Louis Conter left boot camp in San Diego, California with the knowledge that he was to be assigned to the battleship...

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