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James Allen was 16 years old in the spring of 1942 and a junior in high when he decided to join the Navy. In March he...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Hugh Wingo was shipped to Tokyo, Japan. The carrier was in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] picking...

When Peter Newberg got back to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], he was sent to a Marine training...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...

Dale Peterson served on two different cruisers, the USS San Diego (CL-53) and the USS San Juan (CL-54). His battle...

Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...

Choosing to go in the Navy [Annotator's Note: in 1944] was natural for Philip Curran. He grew up on the water. His...

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

Fred Bronfin was sent back [Annotator's Note: back to the United States] for more radar training and teaching at Saint...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it was announced that the war was over. He...

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