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One day, Jack Yusen heard his name called and he was ordered to report to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). Yusen and...

Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...

Richard Hebert, Sr. was born in June 1926 in Jennings, Louisiana with three brothers and three sisters. His brother...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

Mark Brannon was given a 30 day terminal leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time],...

They were on General's Quarters [Annotator's Note: ready for battle] for 72 hours. The guys would take turns on their...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

John Smith was out on a patrol miles into enemy territory when he was "relieved of all hazardous duty" and told he was...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy as an Electricians Mate aboard submarines. After the war he was...

Buck Donaldson could handle the movie machine. They took the troops from San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

Thomas Goss was born in 1921 in Yonkers, New York but grew up in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York...

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