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Merlin Smith chose to join the Navy because he wanted to avoid the difficult life of an infantryman. He also liked the...
Henry Feldman was born in 1925 and raised in Detroit. He had four siblings. His father was a tailor, and his brother...
At North Island Naval Air Station John Finn achieved Seaman First Class, then in September 1929 he made Third Class...
Lowell Brueland flew missions on 6 June [Annotator’s Note: 6 June 1944] in Normandy. The first mission was to...
Oran Harris feels that the leaders of the Axis did not care about their people. Hitler [Annotator's Note: German...
John McCarthy reached Pearl Harbor on his ship [Annotator’s Note: the repair ship USS Laertes (AR-20)]. They waited...
Jack Beverstein was deployed to Samar in the Philippines. He was bivouacked in a tent in a cemetery. He liked the...