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Bombing Japan was a joint effort, according to Donald F. Goyette. He remembers loading bombs onto his squadron's [...

Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) accompanied a Task Force that included the USS Franklin (CV-13) offshore of...

Bruce McCormick returned to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County,...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

George Culpepper's [Annotator's Note: as the communications officer aboard PC-1122] commanding officer on PC-1122,...

Edward Bruce Jennings contracted malaria [Annotator's Note: disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

Claude Shannahan lives in Harrison Township. He draws a pension from Chrysler but worries how long that will last with...

Robert Powers returned to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], which had been built up since he had last...

World War 2 made a good Christian out of Frank Kern. When he got back home, he felt taken care of, was kept busy by the...

Only one of the fire bombing raids Lisle Neher flew was to Tokyo. The others were to other big cities. Each raid killed...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

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