Search results

Map is loading...

In the Spring of 1942, Benjamin Clark Amsden started pursuing going into Naval Aviation. He found out the eye exam was...

Earnest told the man at the base that he was ordered to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was to report to them in 3 days. Three...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

Harvey Mittleman [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was shipped from...

Asked about offloading reinforcements for the Army's 27th Division [Annotator's Note: 27th Infantry Division] at...

Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

Martin Carmody was raised in California and was a senior at San Jose State University. His family had lived there for...

Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...

Edmond Guidry joined the Navy in July 1942. He went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum was an all-American boy and he wanted to fight for his country. He enlisted and his parents were...

Vejtasa doesn't know of anyone being lost during the attack. The farther away they got from the scene, the worse the...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was glad to see the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS...

Oral History