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Melvin Munch was part of the invasion of Okinawa when it commenced on Easter Sunday in April 1945. He rode a landing...

After the war ended, Dr. Robert Beynon and the USS Bowfin (SS-287) went to Long Island [Annotator's Note: Long Island,...

Paul J. Frisco enlisted in the Navy because of his father's service during World War 1 and because of the Navy's...

John Cassidy recalled a regular day in his division included an early rise, a shower, breakfast and "quarters" which...

Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

Robert Templet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1920. At the age of five years old, his family moved to...

Stanley Wolczyk was born in Cleveland, Ohio in December 1917. His father and mother were both Polish immigrants. They...

Ed Weber saw a movie with John Payne [Annotator's Note: John Howard Payne, American actor] and Maureen O'Sullivan [...

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

Forrest Villarrubia was born in 1925 in Lacombe, Louisiana. Lacombe is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, just...

After going aboard they were given some soap and a half a towel [Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey and many of the other...

Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...

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