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Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

John Laster described other ships and other missions that were dangerous but never fatal. Once, the SS Alcoa Patriot...

Willie Wesley Thompson recalled a time when the ship his company was on was being bombed and he was holding on for dear...

Carey Suratt left the United States Army Transport Imperial [Annotator's Note: USAT Imperial], and walked through mud...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....

Donald Stratton is from Red Cloud, Nebraska. His family was farmers early on in their lives. Stratton had one sister...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Raymond Hayes went into service in July 1947 [Annotator's Note: he corrects this later]. He got out in 1959. He had...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

Claude Bufford Shaw didn't come immediately back to the United States when the war ended as he was making a career of...

Vernon Micheel sailed on a freighter manned by a crew from Ceylon [Annotator's Note: now Sri Lanka, November 1942]. He...

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