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John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...

George Colburn shipped out on the USS Rochambeau (AP-63), which was the same ship that Jack Kennedy [Annotator’s Note:...

James Goodrich was taken from Iwo Jima to a hospital on Guam. He was on Guam for about 12 or 13 days before being...

John Vessey and his unit headed to Fort Dix to prepare to go overseas. They were supposed to go on a French ship but it...

When Dupuy got his wings, his sisters came down for the ceremony. After the ceremony he received a thirty day leave...

Walter Imahara was four years old when he went into the camp. They were first sent to an assembly center in Fresno...

After Baptiste left the Solomons he was sent to new construction. He was sent to the hospital because he lost his...

Dossie East's most memorable experience was picking up a Japanese pilot just outside the harbor after the attack [...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

Samuel Lombardo joined the National Guard on 11 November 1939. He had a friend in the Guard who coaxed him into doing...

Sterling Cale was born in Macomb, Illinois in 1921. Shortly after birth, he went into an orphanage for four years....

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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