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When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

When he returned to Singapore, Wim de Jonge ended up in the same prison where he had previously been held. [Annotator’s...

Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan] had not been hit and was going to be hit for the...

Since Alfred Dearman did not participate in World War 2, his most memorable experience was being at Sugamo Prison [...

Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...

Gerald Wayne Lux served in the United States Navy in the Pacific and made it to Australia and Japan. He volunteered for...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

After Korea, Walter Bowsher served as the San Diego brig warden. In 1953, he was in charge of the escort section of men...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919.] Austria always had politicians who primarily were...

Ben Ray Bost loved getting Marines on board ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316], especially those from North...

Norman Elliott was born in November 1926 and raised in East Hartford, Connecticut. He had an older brother. Their...

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