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Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

The most wonderful story that Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] can tell is that he was...

Judge Gordon Thompson recalled preparing for the invasion of mainland Japan in the Leyte Gulf, Philippines. He recalled...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Dye what his reaction to the news of the atomic bombs being dropped on...

Donald Herbert Shown and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] completed delivery of atomic bomb [...

Floyd Stahl stood watch with everybody else. He had a lot of different assignments. In the Atlantic [Annotator's Note:...

At Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk, Virginia], James W. Metcalf was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the...

Robert Swan left the island [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] around 8 or 10 June [Annotator's Note: June 1942]. Even...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] They had rocket boats [Annotator...

Fulton Taylor was deployed on a Liberty Ship to the Pacific after his assignment to ACORN 8 [Annotator's Note: Aviation...

Remi Kidder got the bed he always hoped he would have. [Annotator's Note: Kidder joined the Navy and served aboard the...

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