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[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

Fred Bergeron was 19 years old when he took part in the Battle of Midway. He did not really have any idea just how...

As the United States Armed Forces got closer to Japan, Claude Bufford Shaw felt more vindicated for the loss of his...

Salvador Perino's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)] was brought to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

Joseph Fisher joined the Navy in 1942. His big brother was in the Navy. They used to swim a lot growing up. Fisher was...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen where he was when the atomic bombs were dropped on...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if, as an American immigrant in the Navy, he was invested in...

Walter John Guyote cheated on the eye exam to get into the Navy. He was sent to San Diego, California for boot camp. He...

On the morning of 7 December 1941, Roy Boreen enjoyed an early breakfast of pancakes. After breakfast, he went to the...

Francis Bucher says the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

On the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

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