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Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

Howard Baroudi and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Edwards (DD-619)] travelled a lot and seldom reached a base for...

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

William “Bill” Knapp learned how tenuous life is and how men can hate each other during the Second World War. Hating is...

As far as the war was concerned, Arthur Davis claimed, working for the Bureau of Ships was his big adventure. It was a...

When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....

Baptiste went to the Customs House [Annotators Note: in New Orleans] on 5 February 1938 where he was selected with 6...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Donald Stratton went to Corona, California towards the end of 1942. He was there for a couple months before he was...

Lepla took off with the strike group on the morning of the Battle of Santa Cruz [Annotator's Note: 26 October 1942]....

Wiley relates that at the time of the hit and run carrier raids, they had more aircrew than airplanes. Being a new...

Harold Beal was born in October 1925. He had two brothers and three sisters. He was driving a truck by the time he was...

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