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Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines aboard the USS Butte (APA-68)]...

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

Murphy Burke had a lot of respect for the Japanese; he thought they were good soldiers, and did their job with the few...

Ferrier's airplane was taken back to Pearl Harbor after the battle. The engineers do all sorts of things to the plane,...

After Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] left Pearl Harbor for Midway she took on the Saratoga Air Group [...

Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch OHare] really invented the Thatch Weave and Thatch's name was...

Harold Buell returned to the United States after his Air Group 2 on Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet (CV-12)] was...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. and the interviewer informally chat for a few minutes prior to the start...

Because James McCorriston had attended machinist mate school, he was transferred to the B Division [Annotator's Note:...

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