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Gerald Kynett was born in December 1925 in Media, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, right outside...

While heading to the invasion of Iwo Jima, Richard Nummer's convoy of ships was joined by numerous ships at Saipan....

During his time on PT-171, Olaf Rose took instruction from veteran engineers, and gradually got comfortable with his...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

Philip Curran's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when they hit a typhoon outside of the Yellow Sea [...

John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...

Lloyd Dendy thinks that they shot several [Annotator's Note: Japanese] aircraft down while on Woodlark Island. There...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

Ed Weber was on furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in Dallas [Annotator's...

Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...

Orville Carroll is glad he was not in combat. Two of his brothers were in the armed services as well, in Germany, but...

Theodore Robert Tanner was in the Philippines when the nuclear bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

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