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James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

John Burr was on watch and he could spot anything on watch at night. He wanted to be on his watch at least five minutes...

Jack Thornhill was sent to San Diego for boot camp. There were a lot of guys from the Alexandria [Annotator's Note:...

Harold Buell was involved in a carrier versus carrier battle in the Eastern Solomon Islands. Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern...

Remi Kidder returned to Arnaudville [Annotator's Note: Arnaudville, Louisiana]. His family knew he was returning. His...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Vejtasa had hit the carrier he had made a run on. Fighting 42 was aboard the Yorktown and was commanded by Jimmy...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

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

John "Jack" Raquepau went to get his harness fit and there were enlisted people living on that deck. They had about...

The first flight Jack Glass went on was a search mission during the later stage of the Eastern Solomons campaign. The...

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