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Melvin Abadie spent two weeks in Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the USS Appalachian (AGC-1). He was not connected to...

Joseph Orlando was assigned to Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, Massachusetts to be a Drill Instructor but it...

Emory Maurice Ornelles joined the Army at the Honolulu Armory [Annotator's Note: he had just witnessed Japanese planes...

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

Harry Watson described the daily routine of the Segundo [Annotator's Note: USS Segundo (SS-398)]. They would surface at...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

James Lee's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the attack itself [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Henry A. Tacket began training at Treasure Island in San Francisco for his assignment to a new destroyer. That was...

Lionel Baxter served in the 941st Field Artillery in Battery A [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery...

Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

Phyllis Lenhard was born in August 1919 in Lorain, Ohio. Her only brother was a goalie on the Red Wings [Annotator's...

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