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When Crain got a chance to examine his boat he noticed there were about 50 to 75 marks in the steel where bullets had...

Aaron Baumgarten was born in 1922 in New York, New York, the fifth of the five sons in his family. His father worked in...

James L. Wheeler was born in Los Angeles, California, in February 1926. His father was a dairy man, and his mother was...

One day, Jack Yusen heard his name called and he was ordered to report to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). Yusen and...

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

Charles Dragich was on a “hell ship” [Annotator’s Note: unmarked Japanese ships used to transport Allied prisoners of...

Theodore Marolda received orders to board a transport bound for the Solomon Islands after it was discovered the...

One of Crump’s friends was on watch on a ship that was torpedoed. Crump’s convoy had about 35 percent casualties. The...

Rudolph C. Miller's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being stuck in a boat in a harbor in Virginia. It was...

Shows were important to George Colburn. Eddie Bracken [Annotator's Note: Edward Vincent Bracken, American entertainer]...

One day, they [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] loaded Alfred Raymond Mosher and others onto an inland sea ferry and...

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

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