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Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

While Carl Rieman was off of Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], the USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

Edward Chinnis was born in August 1924 in Ravenel, South Carolina. After graduating high school Chinnis had a...

Wallace McKay was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he joined the USS Pollux (...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Richard H. Kerr's most memorable experience is when a kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

Jack Thornhill was discharged on 15 December 1945 in New Orleans. After being discharged, he went back to Alexandria [...

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

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