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Everett Hyland had gone back to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the 1960s and 1980s as a tourist. He thinks of Pearl Harbor...

Ferrier did not like the way they were awarding flight orders to the crewman. Ferrier made his boss well aware of that...

Otis Kight participated in the Battle of Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942]. Few...

Everywhere that Frederick Ellis went there was an officer's club. The enlisted men never got that. Every once in a...

James "Jimmy" Elam Newsom was born in Oakland, Louisiana in 1921. He grew up and lived in Louisiana until the war...

On 5 July [Annotator's Note: 5 July 1945], after refuel and refit in Perth [Annotator's Note: Perth, Australia], John...

Lauren Bruner was born in November 1920 in Shelton, Washington. He discusses his upbringing and childhood by recounting...

After an hour [Annotator's Note: of being stranded during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo...

Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...

Walter Bank was born in 1926 in Marlboro, Massachusetts, the youngest of three sons of immigrant parents. His father...

Wallace McKay's most memorable experience of the war was going to Japan. It was memorable because of how docile the...

Robert Savage's most memorable experience of the war was seeing the treaty signed [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

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