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Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was in New Caledonia when he received transfer orders from USS Patterson (DD-392) to an oil burning...

Kenneth Beard was born on a farm in Sullivan, Ohio in March 1922. He took a farm wagon to school and grew up in a home...

The Battle of the Driniumor River lasted for 45 days. William Garbo was attached to a regiment of the Army's Dixie...

[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

Norman Elliott and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Pasadena (CL-65)] saw some action while in the Pacific. They had...

Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...

Milton Fernandez left the Galapagos Islands and sailed for Hawaii. At that time, the Japanese were everywhere in the...

Walter Nelson loved the airplane he flew in [Annotators Note: TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bombers]. It was slow but...

Jack Yusen ran into Bud Comet one day in Seattle. The Navy was launching the USS Copeland (FFG-25). Comet found Yusen...

Roger A. Lewis left Wallis Island [Annotator's Note: Wallis and Futuna] and returned first to American Samoa, and then...

Crump was lucky making the transition from military to civilian life. He had worked in the shipyards prior to military...

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