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Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

[Annotator's Note: The interview video skips a bit in the beginning.] Richard Thelen was born in March 1927 and grew up...

Alvin Barnes had coincidental meetings with a childhood friend during the war. He had a friend named Paul [Annotator's...

When Robert Freligh got out of the navy he went back to school at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. They had to go to...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

While teaching in Wausau, Wisconsin, F. Lincoln Grahlfs read about the National Association of Atomic Veterans and...

Bill Norberg took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

Jack Leaming was launched off the deck of the Enterprise on the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...

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