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After advanced flight training in Pensacola [Annotator's Note: Pensacola, Florida], John Sanford Gilman was sent to...

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

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Van Wart brought...

Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

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

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Jake Ussery boarded the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] in the United States and joined in operations...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

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

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