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Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...

Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], John Edward...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

Louis John Walter was born in August 1923 in Sheldon, Iowa. He experienced no problems during the Great Depression. His...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] Edwin Sedran returned to the United States and went to the...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Prior to becoming the postmaster, Walter Bowsher had manned three inch antiaircraft guns. He was familiar with those...

Robert Freligh was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1921. He moved to Adrian, Michigan where he went to live in an...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

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