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The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

Towards the end of the war, Burl Loving transferred to an APA [Annotator’s Note: Auxiliary Personnel, Attack troop...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Robert Beynon what it was like to go out and come back from patrols on a...

Raymond Hayes went into service in July 1947 [Annotator's Note: he corrects this later]. He got out in 1959. He had...

Earnest told the man at the base that he was ordered to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was to report to them in 3 days. Three...

John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

John E. Johnson was born in Houston, Mississippi in December 1926, and lived there until he was six years old. During...

James Ramage was not pleased with the results [Annotator's Note: the results of the US Navy's attack on the Japanese...

Fred L. Keller, Jr. helped load bombs on torpedo planes, TBMs [Annotator's Note: Keller served as an ordnanceman aboard...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow was born and grew up in Slidell, Louisiana in 1926. He had five brothers and a sister, he was...

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