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Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

Dale LeBlanc was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and grew up like most every other American boy during the depression....

Samuel Ukrop's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] was not...

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit's [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] first...

Robert Prince was born in Seattle, Washington in November 1919. He was the second of four boys. All of them served in...

While waiting for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Hutchins (DD-476)] to be commissioned, Mark Brannon learned that he...

Troops were leaving Mortai [Annotator's Note: Maluku Islands, Dutch East Indies now Indonesia] to invade the...

Rowland Elliott Ball was born in January 1924 in Yoakum, Texas. His father worked for the railroad and had many years...

Robert Powers was called back to the service for Korea [Annotator's Note: the Korean War]. He had been honorably...

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