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Robert Marovelli clearly remembers being in the bathtub on 7 December 1941, when the announcement came over the radio...

On 28 August [Annotator's Note: 28 August 1944], LST-1047 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank], the ship to which...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

Boot camp for Louis Smith took place at Parris Island, South Carolina and he found it tough. They shaved his head to...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Jack T. Beverstein was born in 1925 in South Bend, Indiana. He grew up during the Great Depression, but it had little...

James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...

Leo Terrebonne was born in Westwego, Louisiana in 1923, the third of three children. Both of his parents were Cajuns. [...

Robert Nichols Cresswell was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in April 1924. He grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania....

Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...

Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) were assigned to the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The...

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