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Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Melvin Munch was born in 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in the portion of the city that was referred to...

Most of the tests had to do with navigation. They got off of the ship in Pearl Harbor. Eventually Earnest was told that...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum was born in 1923 in Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: Queens is one of the five boroughs in New...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

The weight of Donald Campbell's job was such that he rarely had off-duty time. He was responsible for the division's...

Ray Eshelman was born in Dayton, Ohio, in July 1925. He grew up there and attended school. He graduated [Annotator's...

The Japanese left so the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] secured from general quarters. Orville...

Sidney Grossman was assigned to a PT Boat [Annotator's Notes: patrol torpedo boat] and was going to be part of the...

Vejtasa had hit the carrier he had made a run on. Fighting 42 was aboard the Yorktown and was commanded by Jimmy...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

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