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In 1944 as a senior in high school, Howard Cain avoided the draft by enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was gung-ho...

Walter Bowsher was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: after his liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Japan] where he...

Melvin C. Whitman thinks the servicemen who returned [Annotator's Note: from World War 2] were able to teach their kids...

The USS New Orleans [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS New Orleans, CA32] was a sister ship to the San...

Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...

After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Benjamin Albert Glusing became a second lieutenant and was given orders...

Jimmie Dyer does not recall having any feelings one way or the other against the Japanese at the time, although he...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

Jones' group would fly patrols up and down he coast out of McCord. He liked that flying because there were no controls...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

Edward Riedl remembers that the Duck [Annotator's Note: DUKW; six-wheel-drive amphibious truck; also known as a Duck]...

The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...

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