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Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

Angus Francis Mestayer's outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Air Wing] was split in half while he was on Green Island...

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

On his very first cruise aboard the USS Copahee (CVE-12), William Sturman and the crew took supplies in to Midway [...

John Bradley returned from Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] and attended jump school...

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

Jacklyn Lucas got a call from the President of the United States, Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman, 33rd...

Warren J. Haslauer [Annotator's Note: with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] was...

Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

Leonard Brooks and his family were on their way back [Annotator's Note: to the Philippines] when the Blitzkrieg started...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

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