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[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

John Nicholas was a Seaman 2nd Class deck hand when he went aboard the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)]....

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson kept moving north until he made it to Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Vella Lavella,...

On the 8th [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1942, the second day of the Battle of Coral Sea], Norman Sterrie knew it was going...

When the war ended, Wallace McKay was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], where he worked in a beach...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Charles Littig and his PT crewmen had informal interchanges without the formality found on larger Navy vessels. That...

LSTs [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] do not normally land on a beach unless the beach is secure. Robert Jagers...

"PB" Snyder was born in Vernon, Texas in June 1927. His father was an independent drilling contractor and moved the...

After Easter 1946, Bowdre McDowell returned home and pursued a college education. He graduated with a marketing degree...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Robert D. Shaner's most memorable experience of World War 2 was reporting aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-...

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