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Harold C. Cook grew up in Warren, Ohio. He was the youngest in the family. He had a brother who was popular and active...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Sterling Baker if he recalls a wide variety of ships being hit. He does not]....

When James McCorriston left the hospital, he was assigned to the USS Fall River (CA-131), then he left the Navy. He...

After the war, Richard H. Kerr enlisted into the regular Navy and remained in service for 30 years. His first...

A regular day for Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was to keep the transmitters going...

Before the Battle of the Coral Sea , Vejtasa's group got some information on the Japanese base at Rabaul and the...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

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...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

Archie Kelley admired Rickover [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover; nicknamed Father of the Nuclear...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] was stationed at Shanghai [Annotator's Note: Shanghai...

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