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Rosenzweig, Rollins Attacking the Yamato
Rollins Rosenzweig and his fellow Navy airmen were told ahead of the attack that they would be going to the South China...
Emory, Ray Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...
Owen, Jack Postwar
When Jack D. Owen was discharged, he was required to give a urine sample to make sure he had no medical problems. All...
Phoutrides, Ari Segment 7
In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...
Kiplinger, Austin Prewar Life to Harvard
Austin H. Kiplinger was born in 1918 and raised in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding regions in Virginia and...
Burke, Murphy Early Life and Enlistment
Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...
Schmetzer, Charles Postwar and Reflections
Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...
Brannon, Mark Reflections
The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...
Thornhill, Jack New Guinea, Cape Gloucester and the Admiralties
[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...
Weymouth, Ralph Engaging the Japanese Fleet
The day the affair took place [Annotator's Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19-20 June 1944] they had not had...
Buell, Harold "Hal" Guadalcanal
Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...
Koenig, Elmer War's End
Elmer Koenig wanted to get out of the Navy, but he did not have enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...

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