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Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

Randolph Daniel was born in Marshall County, Alabama in September 1926. He saw hard times in the Depression [Annotator'...

Following the Doolittle Raid [Annotator's Note: named for its commander, then US Army Air Forces Colonel, later US Air...

Delewski took part in the Normandy operation. That was the first time the Laffey saw action. He was put in charge of...

Sometimes when the PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] that Olaf Rose served on [Annotator's Note: PT-171,...

James Paul Lynch's skipper [Annotator's Note: his captain, aboard the USS Snook (SS-279)], Chuck Triebel [Annotator's...

Once in the Navy, Arthur Fishman did not receive much training. He was taught how to read his gauges. On his way back...

[Annotator's Note: Leonard Brooks and his family lived just outside of Manila in the Philippines. Following the...

John E. Johnson went aboard the USS Liddle (ADP-60) in New York in September 1944, and sailed through the Panama Canal...

Robert Taylor made the landing [Annotator's Note: on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea] on LSTs [Annotator...

He was asleep in his bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, CA38] early in the morning of...

Chester Hollingsworth was in the Pacific when the bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

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