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Betty Peak had one year of college when the war started. She was 14 in October [Annotator's Note: 1937] and the war...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Cecil Ezell McLain was born in November 1921 in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up through the Great Depression in Robertsdale...

His mother was surprised and excited when Moses Hogan came home on leave in 1943. After 30 days Moses went back to...

Frederick Amore was born in 1924 in Bay Ridge, New York and lived there until age 17 when he moved to Rome, New York....

Before he could finish his schooling, Philip Schmidt was drafted into the Army. He knew several people that had been...

Wiley stayed on the Portland [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS Portland, CA-33] for 2 days and slept on the...

Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Eugene Corson was born in March 1922 in Stanford, Connecticut. In 1936, his father got a job working on submarines in...

After action in the Marshall Islands [Annotator's Note: Marshall Islands Campaign, 29 January to 22 February 1944,...

Wesley S. Mullen was born in March 1925 in southwest Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] and...

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