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Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman if the Navy changed between World War 2 and the Korean War.]...

Robert Templet believes that there was a lack of preparation for an enemy attack at Pearl Harbor during the weeks...

Blanchard was still feeling the effects of the smoke inhalation when he was in Honolulu. He dealt with this injury for...

Towards the end of the war, Burl Loving transferred to an APA [Annotator’s Note: Auxiliary Personnel, Attack troop...

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

Francis Bucher was on Adak [Annotator's Note: Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska] when the invasion of Kiska [...

When they were heading to Tonga, Fred Bergeron and the rest of his air group were dropped off in Fiji. They flew some...

The most wonderful story that Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] can tell is that he was...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

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

Robert Barnett was born in November 1926 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] and has lived there all of...

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