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Clark Wackerman was born in March 1926 in Brighton, New York, the oldest of three children. His father worked as a...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

Gene Alair was assigned to a Transport Division Staff, CTD8, as a flag secretary and navigator aboard the USS Astoria (...

William Jackson returned to the United States in the latter part of 1946. He lived with his mother and dad and later...

Abraham Rosenzweig was born in Chicago, Illinois in January 1924 and grew up there. He had three sisters named Shirley...

Lepla took off with the strike group on the morning of the Battle of Santa Cruz [Annotator's Note: 26 October 1942]....

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

Donald F. Goyette volunteered for Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan] because his plane got shot up, and he...

[Annotator's Note: There is white noise throughout this clip.] James L. Lowder's older brother was working in the...

They [Annotator's Note: Edward Driscoll and Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13), USS Franklin (CV-13)] left Leyte [Annotator's...

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