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Alexander Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Walter Nelson recognized that they were close enough that they could have bailed over Australia if they needed to. From...

In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

[Annotator's Note: Marvin Tyson served in the Navy aboard the USS LSM-270, the lead landing ship, for the invasion of...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Frank George Memory worked mainly with the officers [Annotator’s Note: Memory was assistant navigator aboard the USS...

When Austin H. Kiplinger returned to civilian life, he had no secondary effects. He was fortunate it being a little...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

Between his first and second patrols Robert Dickinson was on the island of Hawaii for rest and relaxation. A relief...

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