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

John Burr remembers they went into the Sea of Japan as a group of nine submarines. They were surprised to see the...

Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

Jack Holder was ready to be discharged from the Navy because he had gotten married. He went to school and received a...

While in the Java Sea after sinking a ship, another Japanese ship tried to sink the USS Blenny (SS-324). The crew then...

Sterling Cale was born in Macomb, Illinois in 1921. Shortly after birth, he went into an orphanage for four years....

Bruce McCormick was in Richmond, Virginia. They had to see if they were qualified medical-wise [Annotator's Note: for...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

Earl Wergin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in May 1927. As a boy, he and his family moved to New York City [Annotator...

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