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Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13),...

Fred Bronfin was called to report to his local draft board to register. His blood pressure was high when he went in and...

The first island the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) approached was Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands], and...

Archie Kelley landed at Abemama [Annotator's Note: Abemama Atoll, Kiribati]. They were told there were Japanese...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

Towards the end of the war, Burl Loving transferred to an APA [Annotator’s Note: Auxiliary Personnel, Attack troop...

Stewart Bass flew a TBM Avenger [Annotator's Note: Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber] during the Second World War. He...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

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