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

Edmond Guidry was 900 miles south of Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] when a...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

The officers would "talk a lot about things," Donald Campbell says, it was a furious campaign [Annotator's Note: the...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior [Annotator's Note: of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 28 (MTB RON 28) aboard PT-381...

Living aboard the USS Enterprise was tough. Feightner slept in a hammock under a 5 inch gun mount. Other pilots bunked...

Richard Tempus Dixon thinks institutions like The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana],...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

Robert Lents said that for a year and a half the prisoners did everything from building an underground radio station to...

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