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Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

Mort Oman suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder [Annotator's Note: post traumatic stress disorder; a mental...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

William Burkett served in the war because he did not have a choice. The United States had been attacked. There was no...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40 mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note...

When David Thomason was at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

James Shelton Scales was the battalion executive officer of the 1st Battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 23...

Elroy Gambino's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he won over 5,000 dollars playing blackjack [...

Wim de Jonge was a member of a Dutch artillery battery liaising with an American artillery unit under Captain Thomas...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Ben Kuroki has been ever so grateful for the fellow Americans who went to bat for him decades after the war. Their...

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