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John Burr remembers they went into the Sea of Japan as a group of nine submarines. They were surprised to see the...

Jack Holder was ready to be discharged from the Navy because he had gotten married. He went to school and received a...

One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...

Otis Kight's squadron, VF-42 [Annotator's Note: Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42), USS Yorktown (CV-5)] had the bulk of the...

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

A submarine was the first nuclear-powered vessel and the Nautilus' [Annotator's Note: USS Nautilus (SSN-571] reactor...

Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

Alexander Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi...

After leaving Italy, John Snyder was transported to another ship in the Pacific because they needed more corpsman out...

Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

Fred L. Keller, Jr. helped load bombs on torpedo planes, TBMs [Annotator's Note: Keller served as an ordnanceman aboard...

K.D. Jones was Karr's pointer on the gun mount. Jones and Karr were able to get down and crawl out onto the deck. They...

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