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After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...

William Pierce went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina following his tour in Hingham, Massachusetts. Because he had been...

Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd...

Melvin C. Whitman and the rest of the artillery [Annotator's Note: Whitman was a member of Battery L, 3rd Battalion,...

When Davis Gordon Mayes returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] his records were lost...

Gerry Jones and his scout partner, Mack [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity], were out on a patrol mission on...

When the war ended, they shot all the ammunition to celebrate. Rita Hymel thought that was stupid and told her husband...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt's most memorable experience was 7 April [Annotator's Note: 7 April 1945, during Battle of Okinawa...

Paul J. Frisco's first combat action aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) escorting the fast carriers during the invasion of...

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