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Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Austin Hustead was born in 1923 in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, where he also spent his youth. The youngest of three...

Loevsky was born on Long Island, New York. He was 1 of 3 children.His father worked in a bronze factory. He was a young...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

Martin Jacobson underwent demolition training at Fort Pierce, Florida. He also learned sneak and peek, or surreptitious...

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

After Pearl Harbor, Donald Witmer's next destination was Eniwetok Atoll. When they arrived, there were no Japanese...

Frederick Hollis saw the mood of the country after Kasserine Pass as being very negative. With many ships lost at Pearl...

William Braddock signed up for Marine paratrooper training after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He returned to San Diego...

Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

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