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Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...

On 2 July 1942, Jack Holder [Annotator’s Note: serving with Patrol Squadron 23 (VP-23)] was deployed to Noumea, New...

There is newsreel footage of an awards ceremony Fred Bergeron was part of that was shown in his home town while he was...

The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

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

Olaf Rose said they did not go out every night, and they kept the engines tuned up, so there was not much work done on...

Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

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

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