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Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. He doesn't recall the cargo on his first trip...

Donald F. Goyette spent time on Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. When the Marines were preparing to invade...

At the end of January [Annotator's Note: January 1945] in Leyte Gulf, Frederick Grun had his first experience with...

In the main camp [Annotator's Note: Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria; present day China], Malcolm Ernest and the prisoners...

Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...

When David Yoho went through boot camp, it was great except for his troubled background. He kept getting into trouble...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

The Russians [Annotator's Note: 262nd Rifle Division, 113 Infantry Corps] liberated Malcolm Ernest [Annotator's Note:...

Sterling Baker was on the invasions of Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands] and Enewetok [...

David Yoho had his first voyage on a tanker shakedown trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the shakedown, the ship went...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] at six o'clock in...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

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