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Donald Wilson and the USS Vincennes (CL-64) participated in the shore bombardment of Saipan and Tinian during the...

Russell Clay was assigned to the USS Houston (CL-81) which was being completed in Newport News, Virginia. He had his...

Norman Ikari was born in Seattle, Washington on 17 February 1919. His parents were Japanese immigrants. Life was not...

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

Frank Kubiak requested a change to heavier weaponry on his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tillman (DD-641)]. It resulted...

William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

Dale Bates wanted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps and enrolled in college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon...

Henry Lederer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in March 1920. His father was a watchmaker and jeweler who came to...

John Vessey had just returned from a mission when he was told that a cease fire was going into effect and the war in...

Mary T. Heany was born in July 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. They had a nice house. She walked to school with her brother...

Dawn Higgins Murphy [Annotator's Note: the daughter of Andrew Jackson Higgins, the owner of Higgins Industries in New...

Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...

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