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Robert Barnett went to radio training for six weeks and then went to Fort Pierce [Annotator's Note: Fort Pierce,...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Sterling Baker if he recalls a wide variety of ships being hit. He does not]....

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

Mahlen Arledge grew up as a result of World War 2. He understood what life meant. When he went into the service, he...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in Headquarters, 52nd...

John Stiles took part in the occupation of Japan. He had to get a driver's license for Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Paul Ignatius was assigned to Composite Squadron 80 (VC-80) aboard the USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) as the squadron’s...

Robert Hammond was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois in the dead of winter for boot camp. He was prepared for the cold, but...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

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