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Noah Lewis could not believe how many people were killed by the atomic bomb. He was shown a before and after picture of...

Robert Swan did not select going into patrol planes. Everybody asks for fighters when they go through flight school....

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

World War 2 made Dennis Allen Andrews grow up. He enjoyed his Navy career and never regretted serving. He received...

The Saratoga [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3] was getting ready to leave San Diego for Pearl...

Sharks began circling the group of survivors, and Cleatus Lebow said the predators were attacking men who broke away...

Harold C. Cook was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania. His father produced milk and ice cream on his dairy farm. Cook...

Wilbur Rogers likes to tell a story about a pigeon. [Annotator's Note: Rogers grins briefly.] After the invasion of the...

While preparing the West Virginia [Annotator's Note: the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] to go into drydock, Archie Kelley...

Jack Holder was born in December 1921 in his mother’s hometown of Gunter, Texas. His father was a World War 1 veteran,...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413).] From there...

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