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The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

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

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Gene Alair received some schooling at government expense back when he was married. He had been sent back to Harvard...

Jack Linscott was stationed in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California]. They left for Australia in...

Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

George Mouton went to San Pedro, California, and reported aboard the USS Bosque (APA-135). From there he went to Pearl...

It was only a storm that allowed the Enterprise [Annotators Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] to not be in Pearl Harbor...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

Harold Ronson went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to...

Norman Sterrie was born and raised in the small town of St. James, Minnesota. After high school graduation, he worked...

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