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O’Hearn “Duffy” Vincent Dufour joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1940] in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New...

When the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier] was attacked and ensign Mears and...

The major air base in the Gilbert [Annotator's Note: Gilbert Islands] and Marshall Islands was at Truk Island. John "...

Walter John Guyote cheated on the eye exam to get into the Navy. He was sent to San Diego, California for boot camp. He...

Dupuy recalls a certain sense of invincibility that stayed with him. He knew death was around every corner but he kept...

James "Jim" Tubach was assigned to an Army group [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] out in the hills looking...

Thomas Edward Pugh sailed into Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and saw the damage to the ships in...

Gerald V. West was born in Glens Falls, New York in October 1919. His family owned a farm of about 140 acres and West's...

Monroe Scherer was the chess champion of not only basic, but later training. He was at Fort Belvoir, Virginia which was...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. had nightly drills with sounding equipment in the San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego,...

Richard O'Hara was on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when the bomb [Annotator's Note:...

In June 1942, after mortar training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville,...

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