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15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

As Ralph Weymouth approached the Japanese fleet, he saw that it was organized in a typical formation for ships at sea....

Donald Campbell returned to the United States on 4 July 1946. He married his childhood sweetheart. He was released from...

David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

Irvin C. Klimas is not sure the war itself changed him. Changing his life to go to the Navy for 38 months gave him a...

Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

Paul Sparacino [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during Operation Dominic, series of...

Edward Dunne was born in October 1924 in Winsted, Connecticut. He got remarried after his first wife died and he moved...

When Edmund Aziz was assigned to a ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156), later converted to attack transport (...

Milton Muelder, one of seven children, grew up in a Methodist minister's family and was taught the importance of social...

J. L. Giroir was born in November 1911 in Gibson, Louisiana. His family moved between there and Morgan City, Louisiana...

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