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Louis Block knew they were going overseas, but they did not know where. The plane before them went to Guam. When they...

After Lawrence Winnier left the Argonne [Annotator's Note: USS Argonne (AS-10)], he was sent to Schumacher, California...

Herbert Nelson Fontenot was born in April 1927 in Fenton, Louisiana. His father died when Fontenot was only 11 years...

Asked to comment on other post World War 2 trails and tribunals, Whitney Harris brought up the war crimes trial held in...

Robert Villars noted that the crews on some of the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...

Frederick Grun was born in March 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children. His father was an...

Norman Kleiss knew Peter Gaido pretty well. When Kleiss was about to take off for his first carrier landing he was...

As they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and John Liska] approached, the entire village came to greet them. Carmody...

Robert Templet believes that there was a lack of preparation for an enemy attack at Pearl Harbor during the weeks...

On his very first cruise aboard the USS Copahee (CVE-12), William Sturman and the crew took supplies in to Midway [...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior volunteered for quartermaster school in the Navy. He was advised to sail on as...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

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