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Clint Quirk thought the most enjoyable experience was coming into port and getting drunk. Then getting back on the ship...

When Davis Gordon Mayes returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] his records were lost...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

John Ream had to learn what war was. He thought the hike to Camp John Hay [Annotator’s Note: Camp John Hay in Baguio,...

Stinson was born in Columbia, Alabama. After he and his classmates graduated from high school in 1943 they joined the...

After going over the side, the boats would then form up waves of ten or twelve boats which rode around in circles until...

As soon Philip Mayer got off the boat [Annotator's Note: in Melbourne, Australia], he was ordered to help extinguish a...

Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

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