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Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Everett Hyland what he saw from the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during the...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

Cleatus Lebow was kept in the hospital ward for four weeks, then flew from Samar Island [Annotator's Note: Samar Island...

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

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

William O’Brien remembers serving at the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

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

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

Clarence Robert Duff remembered that during World War 2, his ship rode out three typhoons. The last one was in December...

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