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Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was born in Memphis, [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee], where his father was...

Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

[Annotator’s Note: Video and sound is very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

After a trip to Guantanamo Bay [Annotator's Note: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] and back in the newly commissioned USS Hutchins...

O’Hearn “Duffy” Vincent Dufour, assigned to the USS Preston (DD-379), met the fleet in the Pacific [Annotator’s Note:...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Harold Zeringer could not keep up with the European War because he devoted his attention to the war in the Pacific. The...

Marvin Tyson was born in July 1925 the Bronx, New York City, New York [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five...

William C. Ellzey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15...

[Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody served in the Navy as a pilot flying Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers with Bombing...

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