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John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

Fred Gemmel is proud to have served on the Laffey [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)]. He did not realize it...

Martin Sherbecoe recalled a couple of incidents from PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] school. One...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

A kamikaze hit Jack Dunlavy's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Missouri (BB-63)] on 11 April [Annotator's Note: 11 April...

Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was bringing troops home as part of Operation Magic...

The Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] was gone when Feightner arrived at Pearl Harbor so he went down...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

James Francis McCorriston was happy to be aboard a fighting ship like the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). The first place...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

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