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[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson was born in April 1925 in Taft...

Harold Ward found out that the man on the other side of the headphones died about six years ago. Ward wore the...

The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Raymond Hayes got word of the war ending before he left San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for Pearl [...

Cass Phillips did his Navy training in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California.]. He was given a test for...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was out of action for some time. In late October 1942...

Noah Lewis could not believe how many people were killed by the atomic bomb. He was shown a before and after picture of...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

Still just a "number," Carl Rieman wound up at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opelika, Florida, the only ensign among...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

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

Arthur Fishman is a World War 2 Navy veteran. He had three sons and several grandchildren, and his wife passed away. He...

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