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[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] In...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee pauses and speaks slowly throughout this segment.] William Ward Crawford arrived at...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

On the morning of the battle, Vejtasa was flying CAP. Jimmy Flately and Johnny Leppla were flying escort for the...

Mitchell Zimmer was born in Detroit but moved to Yugoslavia which was Austria-Hungary before World War 1. His mother...

After the war, James Allen lost contact with many of his friends from the war. He was busy with college and did not...

The invasion at Ormoc Bay was small and consisted mainly of destroyers and rocket firing landing craft.The Laffey [...

Burl Loving was ordered to report to the 317 [Annotator’s Note: USS YMS-317 minesweeper] which was a 130-foot-long,...

Emil Kesselman went through boot camp in Samson, New York [Annotator’s Note: after enlisting in the US Navy in November...

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