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Eugene T. Leavy was born on 26 November 1925 in New York City. At a young age, he moved with his family to the Jamaica...

Wilbur Lee Jackson knew the deck gun [Annotator’s Note: five inch, 25 caliber naval gun aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] received news that his ship would take part in the...

Robert Liles was born in 1920 in Webb City, Missouri and grew up in Jefferson City. When the depression began, his...

Eugene J. Gemperline was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in June 1923. [Annotator's Note: A telephone rings in the background...

Thomas Landrum was born in April 1919 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father was a painter and paper hanger. He was sick...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...

Jack D. Samuelson was assigned with two other officers [Annotator’s Note: he was newly assigned to the USS Louisville (...

Robert Guitard and his family listened to the news of the war over the radio. One of his brothers was in the 5th Army...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...

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