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The Laffey was in a rough state. She had been hit a number of times from a number of direction. Everything from the...

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

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland was hospitalized after being wounded on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during the...

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

John "Jack" Raquepau went to get his harness fit and there were enlisted people living on that deck. They had about...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

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

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

When he was fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, Olaf Rose hated the enemy, but as the years have gone by, he admits...

Stewart Bass never crashed a plane but discusses an incident in Opa-locka, Florida when he was a aboard a TBM [...

William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Sterling Baker if he recalls a wide variety of ships being hit. He does not]....

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