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James Paul Lynch had a wonderful experience on the Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)]. They had fine officers...

Robert Spint's most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard for him to say. He does not classify any of it. Some of...

Sherwin Callander's voyage to Australia consisted of stops in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. It was winter and the ship...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were anchored too far away from the surrender ceremony to be...

Wilbur Rogers laughs at remembering the reward for picking up a downed pilot: ice cream. For each man a ship picked up...

After Pearl Harbor, Donald Witmer's next destination was Eniwetok Atoll. When they arrived, there were no Japanese...

George W. McCarthy had lost 57 pounds when he was liberated from a prisoner of war camp. It did not take him very long...

Frank J. Waldeck was born in May 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended high school there before studying accounting and...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] participated in the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's...

When David Lamar Mealor was shipped overseas, he went through the Panama Canal. After 14 days at sea, the ship’s rudder...

Joseph Orlando knew he was a Marine immediately. In Basic Training they would be told they were better than any other...

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