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Paul J. Frisco served aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) during the ship's entire wartime cruise. The ship was the fourth...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Richard Higgins left Peleliu and went to Pavuvu and got off the ship. The next day a clerk told Higgins that he was...

Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

Before the war, Sterling Mace played baseball and had aspirations to pitch. He pitched for the Philip Morris cigarette...

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

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

After Bougainville, James Salerno and the Raiders went to New Zealand for some R...

Paul J. Frisco and his fellow crewmen were not intimidated by the threat of kamikazes because of their supreme...

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