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Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

Walter Amoss was interested in Naval aviation but never had much interest in serving in other branches. He passed the...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] headed to the Philippines,...

Michael Clancey deployed from the United States on Saint Patrick's Day of 1967. His parents lived near Camp Pendleton [...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], Arthur Lee was sent to Seoul, Korea, where the American mission was...

Emil Kesselman went through boot camp in Samson, New York [Annotator’s Note: after enlisting in the US Navy in November...

Harry Bender was discharged from the Marine Corps in June 1946. His friend, William "Bill" Laden [Annotator's Note: US...

Jacqueline Bishop was extremely excited when the war ended. She was 15 years old. She remembers it was VJ-Day [...

Daniel J. Lawler went into Peking, China [Annotator's Note: modern day Beijing, China] after Okinawa [Annotator's Note...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior was assigned to the USS General G.O. Squier (AP-130) out of San Francisco [Annotator's...

Melvin C. Whitman had to figure out how to work with the Army when he landed on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

On the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), Pete Brock saw combat in the late stages of the Okinawa campaign [Annotator’s...

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