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When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

James understands that movies are made so people think they are interesting. He understands that Hollywood adds its own...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Entemedor (SS-340) in the role of quartermaster. After the commission of the ship...

Sterling Baker was on the invasions of Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands] and Enewetok [...

At Midway, Robert Swan was classified as a first pilot and navigator. The patrol plane commander was Jack Reid. Swan...

Edwin Henlebin described the beachhead as glutted with supplies. The problem was getting the material from the beach to...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13),...

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