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Edmond Guidry came back [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] to the Philadelphia Navy Yard [Annotator's...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...

The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...

While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart. When he told Mangrum that...

In January 1944, Philip Nelson was training on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in San Diego [Annotator’s...

Following the war and his discharge, John St. Germain worked on farms in North Dakota and Montana. He moved to seek...

Louis Conter left boot camp in San Diego, California with the knowledge that he was to be assigned to the battleship...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

Ray Eshelman was born in Dayton, Ohio, in July 1925. He grew up there and attended school. He graduated [Annotator's...

Alfred Alvarez was about 16 years old when Pearl Harbor happened [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Edmond Guidry wanted to kill the Japanese for what they did. When the war ended, the United States still did not trust...

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