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Chester Biernacki and the USS Helena (CL-50) participated in several shore bombardments [Annotator's Note: after action...

Clem Thrift was born in January 1927 in Thomasville, North Carolina. He never knew his father, who died in an accident...

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941], J. W. Childs saw one Japanese...

Irwin Stovroff flew his last mission on 13 August [Annotator's Note: 13 August 1944]. He felt great that it was to be...

Emil Kesselman [Annotator’s Note: called back into the Navy Reserves for the Korean War after serving in the Navy from...

John Angier was taken to Stalag Luft III-A [Annotator's Note: in Sagan, Poland] after being captured near Cologne,...

Walter Amoss was born in 1924 in Lake Charles [Annotator's Note: Lake Charles, Louisiana] and grew up in New Orleans [...

Donald H. "Don" Bee was sent from Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake...

Curtis Renner was in an air rescue squadron [Annotator’s Note: attached at times to the Ninth Air Force] tasked with...

John Kreutzberg was born in July 1927 and grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He lived with his parents and aunt. He...

Edwin Knight arrived at New Caledonia as a replacement for casualties suffered in the 43rd Infantry Division. He was in...

Stanley Fagerstrom still writes for half a day, every day. He had both of his knees replaced, and one of his hips...

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