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Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

[Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody served in the Navy as a pilot flying Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers with Bombing...

[Annotator's Note: Alfred Taddeo served in the Navy as a fighter pilot aboard the USS Nassau (CVE-16) in the Aleutian...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

Olaf Rose said they did not go out every night, and they kept the engines tuned up, so there was not much work done on...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

Murphy Burke had a lot of respect for the Japanese; he thought they were good soldiers, and did their job with the few...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was born in August 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. His father owned a sheet metal business and...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Elmer Koenig was born in July 1925 in Santa Ana, California. His older sister died in 1918. He grew up in Orange [...

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