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Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson was born in Bronson, Florida in December 1927. He had five brothers and sisters. His father, an...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

Jack Thornhill was born in Alexandria [Annotator's Note: Alexandria, Louisiana] in 1926. In 1932 the family moved to...

After the war was over, three envoys [Annotator's Note: from the government of Japan] were sent to Jack Dunlavy's ship...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] and was put on a list to be a...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

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

Walter Amoss was interested in Naval aviation but never had much interest in serving in other branches. He passed the...

Ferrier's airplane was taken back to Pearl Harbor after the battle. The engineers do all sorts of things to the plane,...

Louis Andriano's DD-214 [Annotator’s Note: Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty] states that he was on...

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