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Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that he wanted to join the Navy because he wanted to fight like the rest of his friends. He...

[Annotator's Note: William Roy reviews a series of photographs he captured during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. He...

James William Grimes [Annotator's Note: assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 45 (CASU 45) aboard the USS Hornet (...

Jake Ussery and the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] began to prepare for Okinawa soon after departing...

Ralph Marcarelli had his best experience back in the United States when he entered Seattle [Annotator's Note: Seattle,...

Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

Harold Joslin was transported from Guam directly to Japan on the Argentina Maru. [Annotator's Note: Joslin had been...

Between graduating from college and beginning the program at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson enlisted in the Navy and was sent to a ship in the Hudson River to train on. He was supposed...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior volunteered for quartermaster school in the Navy. He was advised to sail on as...

Jack Yusen remembers the shells flying by sounded like freight trains and the explosions sounding like thunder. Another...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

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