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While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

In Formosa [Annotator's Note: present day Taiwan], Bruno S. Rinas worked in the sugar cane fields. He carried "honey...

Noah Lewis thinks the white servicemen were promoted to better positions than their black counterparts. He knows in the...

Francis Bucher was training pilots for night flying [Annotator's Note: at Naval Air Station Ellyson Field, Pensacola,...

James Salerno was born in Summit, New Jersey, in 1918. Before the war he worked as a clerk in a store. Salerno chose...

Oscar Culp performed much civic work for the city of Oceanside [Annotator's Note: Oceanside, California]. [Annotator's...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Because James McCorriston had attended machinist mate school, he was transferred to the B Division [Annotator's Note:...

Robert Rosendahl got out of Camp O'Donnell and went on a detail north of a town called Cabanatuan where he was put to...

Wiley relates that at the time of the hit and run carrier raids, they had more aircrew than airplanes. Being a new...

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