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When Delewski resumed firing he had to sit in a different position to fire his gun. The fire had warped the area where...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

Robert Savage was assigned as the radio man on the USS Springfield (CL-66), which received orders to escort a heavy...

Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

Randolph Daniel went to boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator’s Note: Naval Station Great Lakes near Waukegan,...

James Salerno was born in Summit, New Jersey, in 1918. Before the war he worked as a clerk in a store. Salerno chose...

Walter Atwood worked for Boeing [Annotator's Note: The Boeing Company] for a couple of years and got deferments [...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

Peter Newberg did not have much choice in abandoning ship [Annotator's Note: after the USS Yorktown (CV-5) was mortally...

[Annotator's Note: Video and sound freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk was born in Chicago, Illinois in June...

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