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They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

The USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) sailed among several Pacific Islands, and Elmer Spraker admitted that he was a little...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

Jack Leaming and the crew of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) left Pearl Harbor and attacked the Marshall Islands in February...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was out of action for some time. In late October 1942...

Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was on scouting and...

During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotators Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...

Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

Louis Conter saw the Second World War as an unconditional victory. Today's world is different. We should try to knock...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was receiving his equipment right before he was sent...

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