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

Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

John Geiger was security for the officer while on missions. They took the officer wherever he wanted to go. Every...

Peter Hebert’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was wanting to join the Navy and the patriotism of the country...

After a narrow escape from a deadly Japanese ambush, and a tragic friendly fire casualty that night, William Garbo and...

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

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan] had not been hit and was going to be hit for the...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

1 of the men working with Church was hard headed and clearly unhappy with their current predicament. When they were...

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