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Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Thomas Tizzard says that his most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard to pin down. It could be the first time...

After he returned to the United States, Robert Lents took a test to go to officers' school, but after he passed, he...

Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: Shown had become a crewman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in 1939] headed...

Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the submarine tender, USS Holland (AS-3), as a replacement radio man. Their main...

Walter Nelson used to fly out into the fog near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Sometimes he flew underneath the Bay...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

Alfred Rodrigues saw the damage on Battleship Row about two weeks after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

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