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Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

Melvin Abadie spent two weeks in Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the USS Appalachian (AGC-1). He was not connected to...

Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Joseph Orlando was assigned to Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, Massachusetts to be a Drill Instructor but it...

Katherine Croft was born in 1939 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Her father worked there briefly as an architect, and then...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Robert Oplinger remembers receiving the first Japanese sword of surrender on the home islands as being his most...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Gabriel Spinelli began his active duty in March 1943. His basic training took place in Sacramento at a facility that...

When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....

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