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Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of...

The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

Olen Grant was born in Benton, Arkansas on 5 April 1923. After his father returned from World War I, he moved to Benton...

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...

Clarence Anderson's friend Jack Stacker joined the Air Corps a year after him. Jack was a P-38 pilot and was killed on...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

McClellan did not keep in touch with any of the men he served with after the war. He never attended any reunions. He...

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