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Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], and was...

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

Bruno S. Rinas embarked from San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. He visited Alcatraz [...

Francis John "Dick" Varone had not spoken much about his wartime experiences until he joined a group of other veterans...

Paul Sparacino was ordered aboard the USS Princeton [Annotator's Note: USS Princeton (LPH-5)] as an airdale [Annotator'...

On the way to Okinawa, Joe Clapper answered a call on the ship's horn for all those wounded on Peleliu to appear...

Paul Sartori Jr.’s father was an immigrant from northern Italy. They were carriage makers and blacksmiths. His father...

After dropping his bomb, Sumner Whitten turned to get away from the Haruna's [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Navy...

William Hill’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was cleaning underneath the deck because he had to crawl around...

There was some rivalry between the Coast Guard and the Navy but they got along fine. There was also a time when a...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

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