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Francis Borrell found out Doolittle [Annotator's Note: USAAF then USAF General James Dolittle] wanted an airfield on...

During this attack there was only one plane lost. As Norman Kleiss was heading back to the carrier he came across...

With all of the different kinds of huts that the Filipinos used they mainly used armor-piercing ammunition because...

Joseph Townsend started to lose his teeth in 1955. The dentist told him that all his teeth were cracked at the ridge....

James Allen was at Midway aboard the Sperry [Annotator's Note: USS Sperry (AS-12)] when the Wahoo [Annotator's Note:...

Thomas Tizzard was aboard the USS Denver (CL-58) when it went into dry dock to be repaired after being torpedoed. The...

James Warren David was born in Youngsville, Louisiana in January 1926. During the Great Depression, his father and...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

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