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When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

Ferrier was given a weekend pass and stayed at the Royal Hawaiian hotel. At the hotel Ferrier did not talk to many...

Once in the Navy, Arthur Fishman did not receive much training. He was taught how to read his gauges. On his way back...

Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...

John "Jack" Raquepau got called to go to Preflight School in early November 1942. He went to boot camp which was called...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

After Reaching Japan, Gerald Wayne Lux and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)] escorted captured...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan did not...

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