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

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

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Carl Light was born in a small town in southern Missouri and was inducted at Fort Leonard Wood [Annotator's Note: Fort...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...

John Earles was born in April 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a section foreman on the GM...

Daniel Farley tried to enlist in the Marine Corps but they turned him down. He then went to the Army and they took him...

The judges at the essay contest [Annotators Note: in New York] were distinguished writers and figureheads. Erickson...

Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

After V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Albert Reale spent another six months in the...

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