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Vernon Micheel attacked a Japanese cruiser on the last day of the battle [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting...

Alois Kopp escaped from a sinking Hell Ship and swam to the beach on Burma only to be recaptured by the Japanese. The...

Continuing his sequence of experiences, John Laster described a personal injury that was not the consequence of combat...

When Willie Wesley Thompson volunteered for the service, the Navy told him he did not have to go because he had bad...

Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...

The most significant thing to occur during the Battle of Midway that allowed for American victory is up for debate....

Curt Simmons is trying to get the D-Day Museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana]...

Raymond Vincent Hayes was born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1926. He had three brothers but his sister died in...

William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...

As the United States Armed Forces got closer to Japan, Claude Bufford Shaw felt more vindicated for the loss of his...

The worst duty for Vernon Micheel was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a Douglas SBD...

Alois Kopp was a pharmacist's mate aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) prior to its sinking. He was captured by the Japanese...

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