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Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After the war ended...

Towards the end of the war, Jack Leaming's prisoner of war camp at Osaka [Annotator's Note: Osaka, Japan] had burned...

William Roy captured film of Japanese bombers attacking the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] that was not...

There is newsreel footage of an awards ceremony Fred Bergeron was part of that was shown in his home town while he was...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

On the morning of the battle, Vejtasa was flying CAP. Jimmy Flately and Johnny Leppla were flying escort for the...

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

Thomas Lusco Sr. was born in Rita, Louisiana. He was raised with 14 kids in his family. He went to a Catholic school...

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

Robert Swan did not select going into patrol planes. Everybody asks for fighters when they go through flight school....

Still just a "number," Carl Rieman wound up at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opelika, Florida, the only ensign among...

Francis Bucher was training pilots for night flying [Annotator's Note: at Naval Air Station Ellyson Field, Pensacola,...

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