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Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

Stewart Bass never crashed a plane but discusses an incident in Opa-locka, Florida when he was a aboard a TBM [...

Later on [Annotator's Note: in the war] in the atolls on the way to China, the destroyers would go into the lagoons...

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

William O’Brien and fellow sailors played cards or slept when they were not working. He had to take classes to get a...

Mitchell Zimmer liked the idea of sailing on a smaller boat like a submarine. He was trained in New London, Connecticut...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...

Wallace McKay left high school in 1943 and enlisted in the Navy. His enlistment was to end on his 21st birthday. His...

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