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Michael Mickey Ganitch was changed by the war. His family was affected by the Depression. They were lucky to be on a...

Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith's oldest brother, John Joseph, whose nickname was "Jody", enlisted in the Navy prior...

Robert Savage was assigned as the radio man on the USS Springfield (CL-66), which received orders to escort a heavy...

Everything Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. learned as an officer in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of his life. [...

Thomas Long said they made four landings among the small islands around Okinawa, under limited enemy fire. Their...

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Rufus Harris and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Miami (CL-89)] would stop at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi...

Louis B. Hutchinson was born in November 1925 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note...

Adolfo V. Celaya sailed to Tinian [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) delivering key components of...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Walter Amoss was interested in Naval aviation but never had much interest in serving in other branches. He passed the...

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