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With his interest in submarines, Edward Stone decided to join the Navy and enlisted in December 1940. After acceptance...

Kelly Kuwayama was away from his unit for about three weeks before he had to rejoin them. The 44nd was sent back to...

John Morrow volunteered to stay in the service after the war ended in Europe. The atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki...

Robert J. S. Brown was born in September 1924 in Lawndale, California. He had one younger brother. Brown remembers his...

Eugene Yackel was born in March 1925 in Sanborn, Minnesota. He was raised on a farm. He spent the first ten or 12 years...

David E. Olson was born in 1919 in Alburnett, Iowa. He was of Norwegian ancestry. He was born with a twin brother and...

When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

George F. Mills was born in Spencer, Tennessee in May 1921. His family moved to Rock Island, Tennessee where his father...

Roger Shaw was 22 years old when he returned to the United States. When he got back to the United States, he went up...

When on attack, Robert Dickinson was usually at the helm or on one of the bow or stern planes. When on the surface, he...

George Culpepper was in Farragut, Idaho for school for about three months [Annotator's Note: after enlisting in the...

Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...

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