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Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Wahlen was an E-5, Pharmacists Mate 2nd class when he got out of the Navy. His US Army career was over twenty years.He...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Harvey Mittleman's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the heavy combat during the first few days on Okinawa [...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was out of action for some time. In late October 1942...

Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

James Thomas Womack arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] around 1941. He was on patrol duty...

Alfred Taddeo witnessed constant attacks by kamikaze aircraft. He and Kanze [Annotator's Note: US Navy Lieutenant (j.g...

James Oney was scared when bombs were falling [Annotator's Note: during air raids on Stirling Island, Treasury Islands...

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