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Charles Wesley Borders served for about two months in the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1943. He and five others were sent...

After a year, Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson's flotilla [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 6 (MTBRon 6)] was...

Harold Whitaker and a few friends went up to San Francisco in the summer of 1945 and joined the Merchant Marine. They...

When David Yoho went through boot camp, it was great except for his troubled background. He kept getting into trouble...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] Hall and his squadron [...

Paul Lawrence did not know how many people were on the base where he was stationed [Annotator's Note: at Milne Bay, New...

Fred Bronfin was had mixed feelings about leaving the Navy. In the service everything was taken care of for him. In the...

Jack D. Samuelson heard of Tom Hanks’ support of The Museum in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: movie actor Tom Hanks...

George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...

Jack D. Owen was born in Lufkin, Texas in 1926. He had a twin sister and an older brother. Owen’s father struggled...

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