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After he retired he played golf. He still lives in California.Childers experienced the big earthquake of 1989.

Jake Ussery boarded the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] in the United States and joined in operations...

William Lee Barnes was born in December 1926 in Cottondale, Florida. He started school in Saint Andrews, Florida but...

[Annotator’s Note: Outside noises can be heard throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was a Captain in the Navy and...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. At Tarawa [Annotator’s...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] felt...

Alexander Vraciu and the other members of his squadron [Annotators Note: Fighting Squadron 16 (VF 16)] were in their...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. After a very successful first...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413).] From there...

In April 1942, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned as the Electrician's Mate 3rd Class to the USS Plunger (SS-179). On...

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