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Calvin Barrick was transferred to the USS Searaven (SS-196) which was an older submarine based out of Pearl Harbor. He...

James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...

Claude Shannahan left Tulagi and boarded the USS Colhoun (APD-2) on the way to Guadalcanal. They had just gotten into...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior and his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Marine Night Fighting Squadron 542 (VMF(N)-542)] had...

Mahlen Arledge was married on 24 December 1942. He was 18 and his new wife was 16 years old. She was still in high...

Rudolph C. Miller loved the Marines aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Fond du Lac (APA-166)]. They were very...

By the end of October 1943, Benjamin Albert Glusing was sending in payroll to get his men paid. He commanded 40 men at...

Jack Skaggs heard about Pearl Harbor on Monday morning, 8 December 1941. [Annotator's Note: Wake Island is west of, and...

The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...

When the crew abandoned the USS Perch (SS-176), Robert Lents said some of the guys in the water turned on their...

Jacques Brewster Smith was born in September 1923, in Buffalo [Annotator's Note: Buffalo, New York]. Due to the Great...

William H. Greason faced discrimination throughout his time in the military from 1943 to 1946. Having grown up in the...

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