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Harold Buell did two combat cruises with two different squadrons aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6), the "Big E." She was...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Even with his hearing difficulties, Robert Dickinson still jumps when loud noises go off, in just the way he did when...

When the Japanese General Homma [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Army Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma] brought...

Wallace McKay's most memorable experience of the war was going to Japan. It was memorable because of how docile the...

Socrates Dendrinelis was in Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan] for some time. He came back to San Francisco [...

In May 1943, Paul Lawrence had technically been the Navy for one year. While at school, he waited tables. Lawrence was...

After the war, Wiley did meet the island chief's grandson and granddaughter. The relatives of the chief came to the US...

When he was still 100 miles out from his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)], the primitive radar in...

Francis "Frank" Borrell was born in Beacon, New York, 60 miles north of New York City and ten miles from West Point [...

Raymond Vincent Hayes was born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1926. He had three brothers but his sister died in...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

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