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Wiley relates that at the time of the hit and run carrier raids, they had more aircrew than airplanes. Being a new...

Harold Buell and his fellow "Cactus Airforce" pilots searched the Slot for enemy ships. The enemy had Zero [Annotator's...

Robert Dickinson's training took place on one of the old S-boats. [Annotator's Note: The United States' S-class...

Sherwin Lansing Eddy was born January 1924 in Corona, California. His mother passed away when he was seven years old,...

John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note :Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51, USS San Jacinto (CVL-...

When James Born left Japan and landed in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. He had no...

Olaf Rose was born in August 1921 in Pontiac, Michigan, and was the oldest of four children. His father was in the...

In 1942 they began to realize that the Japanese were planning an assault on Port Moresby [Annotator's Note: New Guinea...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan became a...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

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